Pema Chodron Quotes About Life
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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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
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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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Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.
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It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.
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Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
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