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Touch Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
- For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such…
- Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
- 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…
- When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
- Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
- Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is…
- 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…
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any…
- 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…
More Touch Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. — David Attenborough
- Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. — Diane Ackerman
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. — David Bailey
- There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given… — Pearl Bailey
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still… — Drew Barrymore