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One Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
- Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,…
- Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are…
- For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such…
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
- The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear.…
- When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
- You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
- It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and…
- One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to…
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away…
- Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that…
- Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and…
- One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as…
- We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if…
- As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin.…
- There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
- We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake
- As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.
- All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability…
- Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can…
- No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a…
- So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one,…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
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