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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.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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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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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
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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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Patience is not learned in safety.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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