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Begin Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
- 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…
- Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into…
- 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…
- Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire…
- A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no…
- By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
- Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
- 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…
- If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that…
- As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
- What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)
- When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
- We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
- It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without…
- It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well…
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any…
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