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Very 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…
- 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…
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
- Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re…
- Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous…
- 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…
- …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…
- The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that…
- 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…
- It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is…
- What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're…
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