"Now is the only time. How we relate……" — Pema Chodron
"Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now."
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Pema Chodron
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360 Quotes by Pema Chodron
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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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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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