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there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.
– Pema Chdrn

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  1. The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. – Pema Chdrn
  2. One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. – Pema Chdrn
  3. To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite. – Pema Chdrn
  6. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
  7. Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
  8. Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha. – Pema Chdrn
  9. There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. – Pema Chdrn
  10. Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – Pema Chdrn
  11. Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn
  12. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. – Pema Chdrn
  13. Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
  14. In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. – Pema Chdrn
  15. It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn
  16. Sitting meditation begins with good posture. – Pema Chdrn
  17. Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. – Pema Chdrn
  18. The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us. – Pema Chdrn
  19. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. – Pema Chdrn
  20. The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. – Pema Chdrn
  21. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
  22. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chdrn
  23. PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
  24. they that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  25. The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  26. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
  27. Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures. – Debasish Mridha
  28. The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading – Vladimir Nabokov
  29. We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence. – Marcel Proust
  30. Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure -“ attractively packaged but inferior in content. – Alan W Watts
  31. The best way to make the true history a lasting legacy is to make it a lasting subject of learning – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  32. Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. – Richelle E Goodrich
  33. It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  34. Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results. – Andrena Sawyer
  35. Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain. – Adriana Trigiani
  36. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way -” it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  37. Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving. – J Budziszewski
  38. You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. – Homer Rice
  39. Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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