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
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes… — Pema Chodron 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
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
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or… — Pema Chodron 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
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — 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
A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. — 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
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
“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 Image
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — 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 pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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