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True Quotes by Pema Chodron
- To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is…
- If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
- 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…
- Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have…
- Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover…
- 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…
- True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
- The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
- 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…
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