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Sit Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to…
- 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…
- When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
- So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one,…
- When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of…
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- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele