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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
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Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.
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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
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