Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It… — 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
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 first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a… — 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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something… — 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
