"Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where…" — Pema Chodron
"Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck."
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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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More Friends Quotes
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
— J. J. Abrams
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