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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.

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
Appreciation
Vulnerable
Pain
Tender
Experience
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Inherent
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Soft
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Love
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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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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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