Escaping Quote by Pema Chodron Download Open image “We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)” — Pema Chodron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Escaping Life Mind Monsters Psychology Whole life
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it. — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lets us forget the world & get into the swings of thoughts. Lets tune in to the nature and touch the clouds. Lets hide… — Glen Rambharack 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
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in. — Alfred Sheinwold Copy Share Image
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have… — John Glover Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides.… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
