We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Every day we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, “Am I going to add to the aggression in the world?” Every… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“All over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. Every day we could reflect on… — Pema Chödrön 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
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
