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Fully Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
- The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that…
- But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away…
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,…
- We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.
- We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake
- To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always…
- 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…
- Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death…
- We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is…
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
- 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…
- 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…
- For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To…
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- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
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- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams