Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. — 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
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. — 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
