“we have the incredible fortune of living alongside wise men and women from many traditions who give us these kinds of messages… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own… — 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
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“I realized that it is these two things that staying with regrets offers: It can become the seed of compassion and empathy… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with,… — Pema Chodron 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
“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
“We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and… — Pema Chodron 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
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to… — 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
