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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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We don't set out to save the world we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
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Each of us has a soft spot: the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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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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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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