Pema Chodron Quotes
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.
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We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
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The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?
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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.
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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
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Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
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Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be
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There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
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Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.
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The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.
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The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.
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