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Become Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
- Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is…
- We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
- Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
- 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…
- If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
- 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…
- The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more…
- 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…
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing…
- Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
- Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous…
- Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to…
- A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time…
- Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
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