"Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting.……" — Pema Chodron
"Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know."
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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 Comforting Quotes
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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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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really…
— Amy Adams
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super…
— Kristen Bell
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
— Felix Adler
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
— Mitch Albom
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When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined,…
— Nick Cave
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
— Princess Diana
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