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
“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . . — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The formal practice of loving-kindness or maitri has seven stages. We begin by engendering loving-kindness for ourselves and then expand it at… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Practicing loving-kindness toward ourselves seems as good a way as any to start illuminating the darkness of difficult times.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Nonaggression and the Four Maras All the maras point the way to being completely awake and alive by letting go, by letting… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good… — Pema Chödrön 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
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more… — 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
