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Love 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…
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
- The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
- If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down,…
- Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.
- Patience is not learned in safety.
- We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
- If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
- Lower your standards and relax as it is.
- 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…
- Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
- It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness…
- What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
- 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.
- Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
- Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
- It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
- If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
- Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
- Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
- Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
- How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
- 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…
- Softening what is rigid in our hearts...
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