Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more… — 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
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future.… — 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
Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. — 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
“As we practice moving into the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If… — 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
If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment. — 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
