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Things Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you…
- 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…
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
- Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to…
- Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
- At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I…
- The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear.…
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're…
- When Things Fall Apartâ€Â and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only…
- 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…
- 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…
- It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are…
- Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
- 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…
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,…
- We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
- If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our…
- When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And…
- Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
- 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.…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle