We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t wa…

Pema Chodron
319 citations
We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.
Love
21

More Author Quotes

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with anot … ▶
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gentl … ▶
Holding on to anything blocks wisdom. ✨ Pema Chodron (2003). Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, p.180, Shambhala Publications
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. ✨ Pema Chodron (2000). When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, p.93, Shambhala Publ … ▶
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes