"Finding the courage to go to the places……" — Pema Chodron
"Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well."
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360 Quotes by Pema Chodron
Pema Chodron has 360 quotes on this site.
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things…
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
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When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to.…
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with…
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness…
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The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation,…
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It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something…
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To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive…
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Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.
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Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal.…
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No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you…
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Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth…
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