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Open Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
- 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,…
- We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own…
- When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
- 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…
- At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I…
- Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
- We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
- So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
- Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the…
- The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.
- Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
More Open Quotes
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. — Francis Bacon
- Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. — David Bailey
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for… — James M. Barrie
- If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -… — Dave Barry