Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön 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
“Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“But we don’t have to close down when we feel groundlessness in any form. Instead, we can turn toward it and say,… — 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
“This is where renunciation enters the picture--renunciation of the hope that our experience could be different, renunciation of the hope that we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chödrön 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
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — 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
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go… — 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 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
