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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient (Pema Chodron Quotes)
If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that’s endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn’t inherent in the place but in your state of mind (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There’s no need to add anything extra (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there’s anywhere to hide (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Having 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 for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy (Pema Chodron Quotes)
What’s encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we’re closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Even if you don’t feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious (Pema Chodron Quotes)
When there’s a disappointment, I don’t know if it’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Somehow, 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 things (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be (Pema Chodron Quotes)
The 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 may be just to keep moving (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go (Pema Chodron Quotes)
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared (Pema Chodron Quotes)
It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share (Pema Chodron Quotes)
It’s helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have (Pema Chodron Quotes)
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives (Pema Chodron Quotes)
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Remember 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 Quotes)
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it (Pema Chodron Quotes)
It’s important to remember, when we’re out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn’t get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition (Pema Chodron Quotes)
There’s a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Those of us who struggle with this know (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don’t interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice? (Pema Chodron Quotes)
Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts (Pema Chodron Quotes)