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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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