Pema Chodron Quotes About Enlightenment
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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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