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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
We can be with what’s happening and not dissociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird,
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
wider, more generous, more enlightened perspective arises.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
My style was driving everyone else crazy, and I couldn’t find anywhere to hide.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
That was why I moved to Colorado, where I could spend more time in his presence. I moved closer, but I was definitely not ready to surrender. There was
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
We forget what we’ve learned through meditation and know to be true. When really strong emotion comes up, all the doctrines and beliefs that we’ve held on to seem kind of pitiful by comparison, because emotions are so much more powerful.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
If we can look at and see the wildness of emotion, we can not only begin to befriend and soften toward ourselves, but we can also begin to befriend all human beings and indeed all living beings.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Not wandering in the world of desire is another way of describing cool loneliness. Wandering in the world of desire involves looking for alternatives, seeking something to comfort us—food, drink, people. The word desire encompasses that addiction quality, the way we grab for something because we want to find a way to make things okay. That quality
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Very profound. When I think about it, my mum was “HS” from when I was 12 and never really reclaimed that position. And effectively in the evening I was wandering in the kitchen, opening the fridge and finding some comfort in food, and hot tea with honey.How do I now work with the world of desire vs Loneliness? I seem to like loneliness and contemplation but I still reach for things. Something to explore further.
Often peace is taught as the fourth mark of existence. This isn’t the peace that’s the opposite of war. It’s the well-being that comes when we can see the infinite pairs of opposites as complementary.
Pema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
klesha mara is characterized by strong emotions.