We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. —SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — 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
“Everything in our lives can wake us up or put us to sleep, and basically it's up to us to let it… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our… — 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
The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. — 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
“Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you're always in the middle of the universe and the circle is always… — 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
“To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.… — Pema Chodron 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
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that’s life. Death is… — Pema Chödrön 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
“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
“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and… — Pema Chödrön 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
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
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
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
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up,… — Pema Chodron 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
“There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections into a nice… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune;… — 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
It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the… — Pema Chodron 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’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
