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
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
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
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“The pith instruction is, whatever you do, don’t try to make the poisons go away. When you’re trying to make them 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
“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 Image
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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 Image
