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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
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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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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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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