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Lives Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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.…
- We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of…
- We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
- We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice…
- In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they…
- Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
- 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…
- 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…
- There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those…
- Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize…
- Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in…
- 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…
- It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
- We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
- 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…
- In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
- It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen…
- It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves…
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- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius