We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark.… — Pema Chodron 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
By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think… — 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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel… — Pema Chodron 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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
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
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