"The truth you believe and cling to makes……" — Pema Chodron
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."
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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 Anything New Quotes
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one of 88 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me…
— Clara Barton
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never…
— Albert Einstein
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
— Jeff Bezos
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything…
— Charles Kettering
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
— Burt Rutan
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
— Shigeru Ban
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You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.
— Michael Beckwith
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut…
— Joao Magueijo
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