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Point Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're…
- Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be…
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and…
- One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as…
- At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
- We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved.…
- We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They…
- My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.…
- It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without…
- Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you…
- 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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