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It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea (Pema Chodron Quotes)
It is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself (Pema Chodron Quotes)
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others (Pema Chodron Quotes)
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them (Pema Chodron Quotes)
The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort (Pema Chodron Quotes)
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves (Pema Chodron Quotes)
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind (Pema Chodron Quotes)
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity (Pema Chodron Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? (Pema Chodron Quotes)
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We 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 (Pema Chodron Quotes)
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion (Pema Chodron Quotes)
A 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 threatening us (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found (Pema Chodron Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain (Pema Chodron Quotes)
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 gently (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people’s wrongness (Pema Chodron Quotes)
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart (Pema Chodron Quotes)
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings (Pema Chodron Quotes)
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless (Pema Chodron Quotes)
It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life (Pema Chodron Quotes)
When we protect ourselves so we won’t feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings (Pema Chodron Quotes)