Pema Chodron Quotes - Page 6

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

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  Karma, Grateful, People

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

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  Good Friend, Friendly, Made

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

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  Joy, Staying, Train

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

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  Running, Pain, Hate

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, September 26, 2000.

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. 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. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

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  Long, Meditation, Way

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• We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

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  Moments, Present Moment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

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  Spiritual, Exercise, Relax

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from "When Things Fall Apart

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  Fall, Space, Waiting

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• There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

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  Powerful, Ego, Together

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

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  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

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  Emotional, Meditation, Easier

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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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  Needs, Kind, Ends

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• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

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  Buddhism, Squares, Suffering

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• Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

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  Heart, Hands, Mindfulness

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

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  Keys, Confusion, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

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  Heart, Awakening, Remember

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

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  Fall, Compassion, Mind

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• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

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  Spiritual, Attitude, Struggle

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Perspective, Emotion, Obstacles

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

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  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Love Is

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

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  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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