Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“What we hate in ourselves, we’ll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we… — 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
“We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the… — Pema Chödrön 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
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In order to be gentle and create an atmosphere of compassion for yourself, it’s necessary to stop talking to yourself about how… — Pema Chödrön 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
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it… — 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
