“To be fully alive, fully human, and
completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is
to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and
fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” Pema Chödrön
FYI:
Pema
Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown on July 14, 1936) is a notable American figure
in Tibetan Buddhism. A disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is an ordained
nun, author, and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage Trungpa founded.
A prolific author, she has conducted
workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and
throughout North America. She is resident and teacher of Gampo Abbey, a
monastery on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Pema
Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936 in New York City. She attended
Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and grew up on a farm in the
countryside with an older brother and sister. She graduated from the University
of California, Berkeley, and worked as an elementary school teacher in
California and New Mexico before her conversion to Buddhism.