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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

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
Allow
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Situation
Become
Life
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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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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I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.
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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
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Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
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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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Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
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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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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
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