« All Awakening Quotes · Pema Chodron's Page
Awakening Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- 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…
- You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
- Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement,…
- 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,…
- It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
- Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
- I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need…
- 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…
More Awakening Quotes
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the… — Bryan Adams
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the… — David Bowie
- To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to… — Robert Byrd
- When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long… — Nicolas Cage
- The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing
- Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to… — Sri Chinmoy
- You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a… — Paulo Coelho
- So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease… — Nhat Hanh
- In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh
- There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson