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When we protect ourselves so we won’t feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of the heart.

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Pema Chödrön is an ordained American Tibetan Buddhist nun. In addition to her work establishing the Tibetan Buddhist monastic tradition in the West, she is an author and teacher, working with spiritual seekers of all traditions. Her book When Things Fall Apart is a classic work on handling uncertainty.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOnly through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe read to know we are not alone.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageFailures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are what we believe we are!

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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FindCenter Quotes Image'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDo not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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