But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Practicing loving-kindness toward ourselves seems as good a way as any to start illuminating the darkness of difficult times.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — 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
Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when we are able to be pierced to the heart by our own suffering and the suffering of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let these hard moments inform you.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The formal practice of loving-kindness or maitri has seven stages. We begin by engendering loving-kindness for ourselves and then expand it at… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“As we practice moving into the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding… — 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
The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more… — 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
