We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“BEING ABLE to lighten up is the key to feeling at home with your body, mind, and emotions, to feeling worthy to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and… — 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
I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“But we don’t have to close down when we feel groundlessness in any form. Instead, we can turn toward it and say,… — 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
“It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“we have the incredible fortune of living alongside wise men and women from many traditions who give us these kinds of messages… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Tonglen practice has four stages: Rest your mind for a second or two in a state of openness or stillness. This is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“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 regarded as the path. Everything is workable. It is a fearless proclamation, the lion’s roar.” Everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path. Everything is workable. If we find ourselves in… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
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
“Whatever you’re given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That’s the challenge of now: What are you going to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to… — 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 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 an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to… — 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 Image
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on the floor or a candle - it would be much more of a concentration exercise. But the breath is very elusive; even if you wanted to give it one hundred percent attention, it would be difficult because it… — 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 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 relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because 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 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 there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from… — 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 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
![“Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we…” quote by Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e06/pema-ch-dr-n-327_accepting_over-time-as-the-thinking-mind-begins-to_1668545.jpg)
![“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)
