Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In order to be gentle and create an atmosphere of compassion for yourself, it’s necessary to stop talking to yourself about how… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“I realized that it is these two things that staying with regrets offers: It can become the seed of compassion and empathy… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We awaken this bodhichitta, this tenderness for life, when we can no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“we have the incredible fortune of living alongside wise men and women from many traditions who give us these kinds of messages… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my… — Pema Chodron 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 habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The pith instruction is, whatever you do, don’t try to make the poisons go away. When you’re trying to make them go… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that… — 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
“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
“Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The ground of not causing harm is mindfulness, a sense of clear seeing with respect and compassion for what it is we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“What we hate in ourselves, we’ll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we… — 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
