The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it… — Pema Chodron 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
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“When we say, “May I have happiness,” or, “May I be free of suffering,” or, “May any individual have happiness and be… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“As we practice moving into the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“But if, instead of thinking of these feelings as bad, we could think of them as road signs or barometers that tell… — 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
“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
