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Pema Chodron Quotes about Happiness

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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron
Happiness, Spiritual, Peace
Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

Pema Chodron
Happiness, Letting Go, Struggle
Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

Pema Chodron
Strength, Happiness, Encouraging
"Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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