Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“#283 "Develop your curiosity, not caring whether the object of you inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet."~” — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing… — 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
