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Right Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the…
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
- Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as…
- The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to…
- We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
- Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
- I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person…
- 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…
- 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…
- Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes…
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and…
- Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do…
- The future is the result of what we do right now.
- We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
- WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad…
- Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you…
- Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could…
- It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is…
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