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Pema Chodron has 363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as…
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
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When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel…
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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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…
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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…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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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.…
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little…
— William Hazlitt
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching…
— Byron Katie
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Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the…
— Sue Grafton
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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and…
— Jane Austen
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We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.…
— Pema Chodron
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Turning a close relationship into a path of self-liberation necessitates a change in our perception of our partner. Instead of seeing our…
— Pacifiersucker
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Our suffering comes from our attachment to people and things, our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting…
— Unknown Author
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