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Experience Quotes by Pema Chodron
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how…
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're…
- Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
- Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our…
- Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as…
- Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your…
- Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
- Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
- When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow…
- 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…
- The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that…
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to…
- 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…
- 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,…
- We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
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