The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. — 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
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
“The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good… — Pema Chödrön 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
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment. — 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
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
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless. — Pema Chodron 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
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness. — 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
Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide. — 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
