"We work on ourselves in order to help……" — Pema Chodron
"We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves."
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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 Help Quotes
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one of 11,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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