All PEMA CHODRON Quotes about “Reality”

“If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”
“As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.”
“The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesnâ€™t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we donâ€™t have to feel itâ€™s happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as weâ€™re addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot.”

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