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Our Lives Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
More Our Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- 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
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson