Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those … - Pema Chodron

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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Pema Chodron

Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

Comforting, Established, Karma, Know, Practice, Struggle

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So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

Healing, Occur, Path, Real, Realize, Spiritual

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

Inspirational, Friends, Teacher, Night, Invited, Enemy

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

Character, Feeling, Medicine, Philosophy, Present, Stay

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

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Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

Begins, Choose, Events, Inner Peace, Peace, Peace Of Mind

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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

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Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

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