All Pema Chodron Quotes
- That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the… Accept
- To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is… Awakening
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the… Accumulates
- When resistance is gone, the demons are gone. Demon
- 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 uncovering the whisper,… Affirmation
- We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own… Anything Back
- When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. Agenda
- Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. Any
- Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into… Begin
- Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Pain
- Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are… Blame
- It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. Alive
- It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. Arise
- For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such… Anxiety
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have. All
- Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. Goodheartedness
- Patience is not learned in safety. Funny
- We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of… All
- What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how… Affect
- We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives. Awake
- The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have. All
- Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us… Beneath
- Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. Bodies
- The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. Divide
- Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a… Awakening