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Patterns Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire…
- Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.
- Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
- Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our…
- When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to…
- There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be…
- We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
- It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
- It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without…
- Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken…
More Patterns Quotes
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi