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
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always. — 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
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the… — 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
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
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide. — 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, that it… — 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
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are… — 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
If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. — Pema Chodron 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 harshness. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful… — 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
