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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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• A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

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  Running, Mean, Good Relationship

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• Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

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  Heart, Demon, Possibility

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

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  Giving, Joy, Delight

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

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  Buddhist, Mind, Suffering

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, December 24, 1996.

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• Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

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  Change, Pain, Meditation

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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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• 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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• As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

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  Compassion, Long, Perfection

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• The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we’re addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot.

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  Moving, Mean, Reality

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

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  Joy, Resentment, Obstacles

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• The future is the result of what we do right now.

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  Results, Right Now, Only Time

  "Tea with Pema Chodron in the Mayan Jungle". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 11, 2012.

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• The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

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  Essence, Path, Discomfort

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• Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

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  Keys, Light, Worry

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

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  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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• Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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  Relax, Standards

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.50, 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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• 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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• 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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• While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

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  Wise, Self, Knowing

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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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• Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

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  Work, Buddhism, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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  Spiritual, Views, Joy

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

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  Running, Compassion, Self

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