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Instead Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person…
- Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I…
- We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for…
- It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
- If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down.
- 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…
- The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch…
- We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
- …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- 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…
- The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
- Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could…
More Instead Quotes
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When… — Cassandra Clare
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba