Causes Quote by Pema Chodron Download Open image “Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.” — Pema Chodron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Causes Happenings Majors Resisting Suffering
The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is. — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The chief cause of suffering for human beings is an inability to have things be the way they are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“LIFE’S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on the floor… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. Perhaps… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. — Big Joe Turner Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image