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Some Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to…
- It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness…
- 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…
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
- 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…
- 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…
- At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
- Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re…
- How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
- Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for…
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