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Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn't last forever.

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.
– Pema Chdrn

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  1. The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us. – Pema Chdrn
  2. There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. – Pema Chdrn
  3. Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
  4. Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha. – Pema Chdrn
  5. Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – Pema Chdrn
  6. Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn
  7. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. – Pema Chdrn
  8. IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite. – Pema Chdrn
  9. In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. – Pema Chdrn
  10. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
  11. It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn
  12. Sitting meditation begins with good posture. – Pema Chdrn
  13. Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. – Pema Chdrn
  14. 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
  15. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. – Pema Chdrn
  16. The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. – Pema Chdrn
  17. The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. – Pema Chdrn
  18. there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
  19. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
  20. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chdrn
  21. PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
  22. God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions. – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
  23. Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations. – Bryant McGill
  24. I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. – JeanPaul Sartre
  25. We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. – Kilroy J Oldster
  26. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations. – Joseph Conrad
  27. Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief. – Amit Ray
  28. Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing. – Osho
  29. The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity. – Grant Morrison
  30. I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man’s wits. (…) And I believe there once were dragons. I’ve seen their skulls, after all. – George RR Martin
  31. …You say you don’t mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom – Hell is paved with priests’ skulls…. – John Geddes
  32. I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,- Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup. – Sage Blackwood
  33. I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,- Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup. – Sage Blackwood
  34. how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams – Ron Silliman
  35. Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. – Irvin D Yalom
  36. And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death. – Augusten Burroughs
  37. The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. – Franz Kafka
  38. Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. – TF Hodge
  39. It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain
  40. My words are like a musical instrument, softly & seductively playing under the moonlight as they penetrate the depths of your loins! – RokkI La VON

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