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Who We Are Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- 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…
- In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity…
- 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…
- We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
- To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to…
- Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we…
- Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
- We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious…
More Who We Are Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende
- Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. — Glenn Beck
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each… — Mary J. Blige
- Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say… — Cate Blanchett
- The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue… — Michael Bloomberg
- The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we… — Joyce Brothers
- The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in… — Jim Bunning
- Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and… — George W. Bush
- We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that… — Benjamin Carson