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Pema Chodron Quotes - Page 15

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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Meditation, Humanity, Sitting

Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

Giving, Addiction, Scratches

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...

Pain, Prejudice, Passionate

"The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chödrön, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

Peace, Home, Doors

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Wisdom, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

Pain, Thinking, Practice

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

Real, Dust, Clouds

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Inspirational, Sympathy, Wisdom

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Practice, Suffering, Illusion

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Evil, Friendly, World

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Mind, Way, Hell

Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

What If, Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

Space, Everyday, Everyday Life

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

Pain, People, Confusion

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

Teacher, Giving Up, Might

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Fine

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

Tortillas, Ifs

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

Unique, Meditation, Together

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

Life, Life Is, Glorious

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

Weather, Shifting, Mood

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Letting Go, Merit, Possessiveness

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Thinking, Life Is, Burden

Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Crazy, Teaching, Self

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

Compassion, People, Important

Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Acceptance, Simple, Confusion

Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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