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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 ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
— Robert Byrd
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and…
— William J. Clinton
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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in…
— Unknown Author
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,…
— Pema Chodron
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
— Joseph Joubert
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
— Pico Iyer
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our…
— Barack Obama
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists…
— Samuel Ullman
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