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Trying Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is…
- We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of…
- 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…
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
- We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.
- Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be…
- I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person…
- Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
- When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come 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…
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
- Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation…
- 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…
- It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
- If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down.
- There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be…
- My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.…
- Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death…
- 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…
- Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
- 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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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
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- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
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