Pema Chodron Quotes About Spirituality
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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
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Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.
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