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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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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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Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.
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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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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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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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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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Patience is not learned in safety.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
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We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
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