Right now Quotes by Pema Chödrön

17 Right now quotes by Pema Chödrön

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Chödrön’s gentle wisdom invites you to settle into the current breath. These seventeen passages offer compassionate guidance for staying grounded amid life’s rush.

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“The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are.”

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The future is the result of what we do right now.

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Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future.…

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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

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“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of…

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The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are…

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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think…

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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground…

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“The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good…

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If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or…

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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more…

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Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting…

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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and…

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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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Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits…

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“When we regard thoughts and emotions with humor and openness, that’s how we perceive the universe. This opening to the world begins…

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