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Anything Quotes by Pema Chodron
- There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a…
- 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…
- 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…
- We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice…
- It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are…
- 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…
- Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
- 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,…
- It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share.…
- When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
- Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
- 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…
- 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…
- Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
- Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
- Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the…
- The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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