Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.… — 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
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. — Pema Chodron 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
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that’s what we begin to undo. If we see… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Our habitual patterns are, of course, well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wishing for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Mindfulness and… — Pema Chodron 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
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.… — Pema Chodron 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
“An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.” — Pema Chödrön 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
