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Good Quotes by Pema Chodron
- We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- 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…
- 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…
- Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
- Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
- Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves…
- Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with…
- Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do…
- Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is…
- We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.…
- When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
- Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
- Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to…
- 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…
- 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…
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