« All All Quotes · Pema Chodron's Page
All Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to…
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
- Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
- If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down,…
- 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,…
- When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
- 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.
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
- 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…
- The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.
- The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.
- Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
- Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
- It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace…
- Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
- The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom…
- Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be…
- While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's…
- Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather…
- In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity…
- Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling…
- While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
- Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I…
- 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…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle