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Moments Quotes by Pema Chödrön

46 Moments quotes by Pema Chödrön

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A moment can be a teacher, fresh and unknown. It invites us to feel our emotions—disappointment, anger, fear—without judging them. By staying present and accepting the heart’s rhythm, we learn to stay calm even when the ground disappears in the chaos.

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The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

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

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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

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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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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing…

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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If…

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The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and…

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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions

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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered…

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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach…

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One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being…

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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is…

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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary…

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Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You…

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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…

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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work…

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Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a…

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Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the…

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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…

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Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate…

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…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach…

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In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and…

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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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Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We…

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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment…

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Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn…

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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry…

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Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds…

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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more…

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The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a…

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Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the…

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Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,…

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Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding…

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