All Pema Chodron Quotes
- As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,… Ambiguity
- Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to… Actually Takes
- We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness. Addicted
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that… Ambiguity
- Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. Essence
- My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.… Buddhist
- The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment. Connecting
- We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to… Accept
- WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad… Addiction
- It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without… Abusive
- 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 much… Along
- 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 well… Apart
- To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to… Always Wanting
- Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you… Action
- You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Calm
- Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas. Everybody
- None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine. All
- In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. Enormous
- True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. All
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any… Any
- It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen… Cause
- Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death… Answer
- When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart. Armor
- When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness… Called
- Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken… Beneath