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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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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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God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world…
— Douglas Wilson
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Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
— C.S. Lewis
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
— George Bernard Shaw
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And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to…
— Rich Mullins
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I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We…
— Katherine Paterson
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We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
— Linda McCartney
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I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can…
— Spike Lee
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I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how…
— Karl Malone
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Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only…
— Glenn Beck
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
— Lionel Shriver
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There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want.…
— Ilchi Lee
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