Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“But we don’t have to close down when we feel groundlessness in any form. Instead, we can turn toward it and say,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“LEARNING HOW to be kind to ourselves is important. When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“This is where renunciation enters the picture--renunciation of the hope that our experience could be different, renunciation of the hope that we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“LIFE’S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on the floor… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. Perhaps… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“When we realize that the path is the goal, there’s a sense of workability. Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Whatever occurs in the confused mind is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
