Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself. — 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
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a… — 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
As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending… — 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
![“We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.” quote by Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5b/pema-ch-dr-n-327_action_we-are-not-given-any-promises-that-becau_1165540.jpg)
