We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The basic creative energy of life - life force - bubbles up and courses through all of existence” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune;… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we… — Pema Chodron 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
“You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into… — Pema Chodron 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
“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
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you're always in the middle of the universe and the circle is always… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I read an interview with the war correspondent Chris Hedges in which he used a phrase that seemed like… — Pema Chödrön 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
“The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Your life's work is to use what you've been given to wake up. . . Once you know that the purpose of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There is a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The opposite of patience is aggression—the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it? — 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
