Pema Chodron Quotes about Perspective

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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

Pema Chodron

Perspective, Patient, Painful

Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Pema Chodron

Perspective, Emotion, Obstacles

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

Pema Chodron

Spiritual, Perspective, Suffering

"On Faith & Reason" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. August 4, 2006.