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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
— Pema Chodron
our minds wander off into all kinds of stories and fabrications and manufactured realities,
— Pema Chodron
Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
— Pema Chodron
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.
— Pema Chodron
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
— Pema Chodron
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,
— Pema Chodron
All of life is interconnected.
— Pema Chodron
LIFE is a good teacher and a good friend.
— Pema Chodron
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
— Pema Chodron
It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.
— Pema Chodron
Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart.
— Pema Chodron
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
Honestly, that is the best advice for life: no note cards.
— Pema Chodron
Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen.
— Pema Chodron
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
— Pema Chodron
Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.
— Pema Chodron
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside ... that's how your temper will cool down.
— Pema Chodron
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
— Pema Chodron
Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward.
— Pema Chodron
Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
— Pema Chodron
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
— Pema Chodron
Dharma is the study of what is, and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself.
— Pema Chodron
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
— Pema Chodron
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
— Pema Chodron
MY teacher Trungpa Rinpoche encouraged us to lead our lives as an experiment, a suggestion that has been very important to me.
— Pema Chodron
Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
— Pema Chodron
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
— Pema Chodron
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we're stuck.
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