"We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because……" — Pema Chodron

"We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness."

— Pema Chodron

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360 Quotes by Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron has 360 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things…
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love…
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to.…
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning…
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with…
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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 Addicted Quotes

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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense… — Karen Armstrong
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased… — Spencer Bachus
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd… — Glenn Beck
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. — Ambrose Bierce
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. — George W. Bush
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them… — Kirstie Alley
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. — Jean Cocteau
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become… — Thomas Aquinas
I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your… — Davina McCall

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