“The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The more you just try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. — 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
We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality... — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to… — 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
“The concepts of problem and solution can keep us stuck in thinking that there is an enemy and a saint or a… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you… — Pema Chödrön 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
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
When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the… — 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
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually… — 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
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we’re stuck.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. — 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
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let… — 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… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter,… — 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
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“When we realize that the path is the goal, there’s a sense of workability. Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Whatever occurs in the confused mind is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
