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
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
“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
I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chödrön 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
“Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you… — Pema Chödrön 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
When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if… — 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
“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
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
“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’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you… — 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
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
Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the… — 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
“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually… — Pema Chödrön 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
“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
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life,… — 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
