All Pema Chodron Quotes
- The more neurosis the more wisdom. Funny
- When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too. Friendly
- If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or… Any
- A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. Ambition
- If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed… Anger
- That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. All
- Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. Curiosity
- Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. Challenge
- Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you… Acting
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. Bail
- When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. Frustration
- People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they… All
- We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. Acting
- We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. Attaining
- Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can… Always Go
- Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. Bad
- The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. Confusion
- How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or… Angrier
- To live is to be willing to die over and over again. Die
- It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. Becomes
- We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved.… Apart
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave… Brave
- Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth Closer
- The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. Difficult
- If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Anyone