Peace Quotes by Pema Chödrön

26 Peace quotes by Pema Chödrön

Pema Chodron’s 26 reflections on peace draw from Buddhist teachings, offering gentle guidance for everyday serenity. Her verses blend mindfulness with practical advice, making the collection a useful companion for anyone seeking inner stillness.

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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

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Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation…

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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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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

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“The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

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“WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything…

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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

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If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if…

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“All over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. Every day we could reflect on…

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“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each…

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If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in…

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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that…

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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies…

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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At…

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“Every day we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, “Am I going to add to the aggression in the world?” Every…

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The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re…

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If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or…

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“Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build…

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Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make…

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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better…

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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we…

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“You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you…

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It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we…

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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music…

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Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find…

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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. Perhaps…

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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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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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