Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that… — 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
Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of… — 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
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
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the… — Pema Chodron 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
“But if, instead of thinking of these feelings as bad, we could think of them as road signs or barometers that tell… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to… — Pema Chodron 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
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That… — 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
