Pema ChodronRather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell t… ▶341Truth
Pema ChodronIf you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness, p.12… ▶352LovePhilosophy
Pema ChodronJust where you are-that's the place to start! ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, p.46, Shambhala Publications374LifeLove
Pema ChodronI have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening. ✨ Pema Ch… ▶374Life
Pema ChodronOrdinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fea… ▶341LoveTime
Pema ChodronHaving compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room fo… ▶341LoveSadness
Pema ChodronWe don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.374HumanityLoveReflection
Pema ChodronWithout loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others. ✨ Pema Chodron (2002). The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fear… ▶341Time
Pema ChodronThe spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path ma… ▶364HopeLoveTime
Pema ChodronSomehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of… ▶331LifeLoveTime
Pema ChodronWhen you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless. ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassio… ▶375LifeLove
Pema ChodronIn truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, p.10, Shambhala Publicati… ▶353LifeLoveTruth
Pema ChodronFear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth ✨ Pema Chodron (2000). When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, p.1, Shambhala Publications364LoveTimeTruth
Pema ChodronA further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatenin… ▶353LoveTime
Pema ChodronThere are many changes in the weather of a day. ✨ Pema Chodron (2003). Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, p.147, Shambha… ▶364Love
Pema ChodronWhatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.342Humanity
Pema ChodronAre you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minu… ▶331Time
Pema ChodronOpenness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.332Hope
Pema ChodronIf you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down. ✨ Pema Chödrön on Buddhism. Interview wit… ▶321Thought
Pema ChodronRemember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime. ✨ Pema Chodron (2002). T… ▶365LifeLoveTime
Pema ChodronPatience is not learned in safety. ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, p.179, Shambhala Publications376LifeLove
Pema ChodronWelcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.354Time
Pema ChodronThere comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together,… ▶376PoliticsTime
Pema ChodronNo 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 g… ▶354Time
Pema ChodronPeace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened. ✨ P… ▶354Life
Pema ChodronWe insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romantic… ▶332Time
Pema ChodronIt's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. ✨ Pema Chodron (2000). When Things Fall Apa… ▶332LoveThoughtTime
Pema ChodronNext, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, Thi… ▶376LifeLoveTime
Pema ChodronSomeone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage … ▶355LoveSadness
Pema ChodronThe future is the result of what we do right now. ✨ Tea with Pema Chodron in the Mayan Jungle. Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 11, 2012.333HopeTime
