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Us Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
- 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…
- Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,…
- Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us…
- Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
- Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the…
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
- Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
- 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…
- Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire…
- Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.
- Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
- Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
- 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…
- Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
- Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
- It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
- The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming…
- The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
- When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow…
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us…
- Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement,…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the…
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong