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Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chodron has written several books and is the director of the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Certainty, Ifs, Invested, Planets, Wrong

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

Reconnecting, Trying, Who We Are

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Compassion, Empathy, Equals, Mindfulness, Wounded

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

Awareness, Key, Keys, Question, Stories, Validity

If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.

Attention, Giving, Needs, See, Time, Tonglen

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

Pain, Grief, Punishment, Reward

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

Buy, Disapproval, Painful, Painful Things

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Dark, Down, Heart, Rain, Thinking, Vaster

Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Compassion, Grief, Happen, Healing, Joy, Unwanted

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Biggest, Emotion, Obstacle, Obstacles, Perspective, Taking

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

Giving, Joy, Delight, Wealth, Give, Share

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser. "

Dissolves, Help, Helping, Loser, Wise

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Alive, Part, Share, Unknown, Wisdom, Wise

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Hope, Real, Renounce, Who We Are

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Gloriousness, Inspire, Needs, Softens, Wretchedness

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Buddha, Flexibility, Keys, Pain, Running, Taught

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Soulmate, Heart, Opening Our Hearts, Discover, Touch

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Difficulty, Help, Helping, Needs, Run, Running

One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!

Appreciate, Appreciation, Buddhist, Inspirational, Nothing, Vast

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Direct, Enlightenment, Experience, Reality, Spirituality

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