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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.

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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Anything
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
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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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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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