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Needs Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
- The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom…
- Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
- Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement,…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the…
- Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in…
- I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need…
- The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.
- Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can…
- People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they…
- 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…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
- Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
- 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…
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