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Pema Chodron - From the Advice category:
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times...
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear... the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Ambition category:
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Anxiety category:
- When Things Fall Apart...
What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Appreciation category:
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Belief category:
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Blocks category:
The process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality... (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Change category:
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Complaining category:
Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Courage category:
Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Creativity category:
We are like children building a sandcastle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of coloured glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sandcastle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Curiosity category:
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Determination category:
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Difficulty category:
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times...
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Disappointment category:
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Education category:
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Education category:
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Education category:
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Ego category:
You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Ego category:
Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Exploration category:
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Fear category:
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Fire category:
If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Freedom category:
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Frustration category:
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Generosity category:
Be generous with your joy. Be generous with your insights and delights. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Guilt category:
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Hope category:
-When Things Fall Apart...
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Humanity category:
-The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times...
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Joy category:
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Life category:
- Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living...
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both... One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Loneliness category:
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Opposites category:
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Possibilities category:
We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Problems category:
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Problems category:
-Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution, 1974...
Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Renewal category:
-When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times...
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Risk category:
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Space category:
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Spirituality category:
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic - this is the spiritual path. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Spirituality category:
We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment - over and over again. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Standards category:
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Time category:
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have. (Pema Chodron)
Pema Chodron - From the Understanding category:
The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. (Pema Chodron)
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