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Pema Chodron Quotes - Page 14

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Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to

Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.

Car, Feelings, Three

"Take Three Conscious Breaths". www.lionsroar.com. April 2, 2017.

What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)

Panic, Feels, Uneasy

It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

Life, Fire, Air

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Trying, Patterns, Alive

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Compassion, Empathy, Mindfulness

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Struggle, Buddhism, Reality

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Details, Mindfulness, World

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

Respect, Lakes, Water

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.

Practice, Agitation, Facts

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Lonely, Warrior, Perspective

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Spiritual, Practice, Four

The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

Believe, Long, Suffering

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

Meditation Practice, Curiosity, Trying

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Inspire, Needs, Wretchedness

Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

Heart, Giving, Laughing

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

Eye, Awareness, Blink

Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

Wise, Wisdom, Fear

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Opposites, Meditation, Trying

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Words Of Wisdom, Intelligence, Reason

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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.

Buddhist, Ignorance, Meditation Practice

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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.

Fear, Struggle, Threatening Us

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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.

Inspiring, Spiritual, Get Well

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

Mean, Suffering, Relief

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Compassion, Working With Others, Action

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