Our lives Quotes by Pema Chödrön

15 Our lives quotes by Pema Chödrön

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Chodron’s calm presence invites you to pause and notice the subtle patterns of daily life. Across 15 gentle reminders, she weaves Buddhist insight into practical guidance for living with awareness and compassion.

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Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up,…

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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 is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let…

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There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period…

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Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.…

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Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and…

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We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that…

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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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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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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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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and…

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The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we…

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Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up…

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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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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…

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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…

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“When we realize that the path is the goal, there’s a sense of workability. Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Whatever occurs in the confused mind is…

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Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be…

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