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
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the… — 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
When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons. — 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
“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
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