“The formal practice of loving-kindness or maitri has seven stages. We begin by engendering loving-kindness for ourselves and then expand it at… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us. — 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
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that… — 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
