In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The basic creative energy of life - life force - bubbles up and courses through all of existence” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.” — Pema Chödrön 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
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The opposite of patience is aggression—the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Trungpa Rinpoche talked about holding the sadness of life in our heart while never forgetting the beauty of the world and the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we're doing rather than trying… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“No … big … deal.” He wasn’t saying “bad,” and he wasn’t saying “good.” He was saying that these things happen and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let these hard moments inform you.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when we are able to be pierced to the heart by our own suffering and the suffering of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and… — 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
“Your life's work is to use what you've been given to wake up. . . Once you know that the purpose of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There is a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön 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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it… — Pema Chödrön 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
“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
