"We can spend our whole lives escaping from……" — Pema Chodron
"We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)"
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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 Escaping Quotes
This quote is filed under Escaping Quotes,
one of 191 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
— Russell Baker
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means…
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
— Steve Buscemi
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly…
— Anatole France
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We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
— Wangari Maathai
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…
— G. H. Hardy
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You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking…
— Rajneesh
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires…
— Daniel Barenboim
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