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Basic Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if…
- There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
- 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…
- When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
- WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad…
- 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…
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