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Love Quotes by Pema Chödrön

46 Love quotes by Pema Chödrön

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A single breath can feel like the whole universe in Pema’s reflections. The quotes remind us that each moment is fresh and that love is the only true constant, while curiosity should outweigh fear. They also teach that clinging blocks wisdom and that the present instant shapes the future we create.

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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

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Use your life to wake you up.

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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

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If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

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Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

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Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

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Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to…

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the…

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Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is…

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The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are…

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If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter,…

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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it…

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“Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not…

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Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We…

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Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that…

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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that…

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“Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and…

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Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that…

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Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It…

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The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.…

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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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The future is the result of what we do right now.

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Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

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Softening what is rigid in our hearts...

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The more neurosis the more wisdom.

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Just where you are-that's the place to start!

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Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is…

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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

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