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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.
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