In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” — 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
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. — 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
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.” — Pema Chödrön 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
Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You… — 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
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
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
“Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe… — 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… — 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
