"Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you."
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Rawness
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Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder."
Patrick Grant
Artist
"I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about."
Chad Smith
Musician
"There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance."
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