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
“The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. — 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
“The basic creative energy of life - life force - bubbles up and courses through all of existence” — 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
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. — 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
You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to… — 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
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.” — Pema Chödrön 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
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary… — Pema Chodron 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
“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
“It's as if you just looked at yourself in the mirror, and you saw a gorilla. The mirror's there; it's showing you,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry… — Pema Chodron 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“When we realize that the path is the goal, there’s a sense of workability. Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Whatever occurs in the confused mind is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
