“LIFE’S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you… — 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
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose… — Pema Chodron 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
“Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, I read an interview with the war correspondent Chris Hedges in which he used a phrase that seemed like… — 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
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We awaken this bodhichitta, this tenderness for life, when we can no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from… — Pema Chödrön 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
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 mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this… — 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
“We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the… — 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
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my… — 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
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of… — 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
“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
