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Our Experience Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
- Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes…
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
- 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…
- 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…
- The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
- 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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- Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
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