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Rather Quotes by Pema Chodron
- As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what…
- Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the…
- Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
- 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…
- We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.
- Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather…
- When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow…
- 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…
- It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
- Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
- Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is…
- Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
- 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…
- …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
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