Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/5/2011

"When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/4/2011

"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/3/2011

"We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/2/2011

"Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/1/2011

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/30/2011

"A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/29/2011

"Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/28/2011

"As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never
learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find
compassion."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/27/2011

"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 come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/26/2011

"So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/25/2011

"No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/24/2011

"The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/23/2011

"As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/22/2011

"At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/21/2011

"I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: 'Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/20/2011

"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/19/2011

"Everything is fresh, the essence of realization."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/18/2011

"I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others."

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/17/2011

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

~Pema Chödrön

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/16/2011

"Nothing in its essence is one way or the other."

~Pema Chödrön

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