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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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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not…
— Angela of Foligno
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There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and…
— Dogen
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When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,…
— Pema Chodron
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The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart…
— Sonia Choquette
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
— E. W. Howe
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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out…
— Saint Augustine
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This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to…
— Milan Kundera
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