All Pema Chodron Quotes
- 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 an… Ability
- Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't… Aching
- Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary. Appreciate
- But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away… All
- Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Blame
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the… Arrive
- That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.… Affair
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to… Accept
- Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern… Awake
- Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from… Cannot Happen
- In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest Learn
- Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves… Ambiguity
- As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . . Birth
- Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation… Change
- Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes… Becomes
- There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those… Absolutely
- Softening what is rigid in our hearts... Funny
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and… Celebrate
- Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us. Been
- If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to… Awaken
- You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that… All
- We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for… Attitude
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,… Alternatives
- Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize… All
- Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see,… Awakening