Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Pema Chodron quotes, Pema Chodron sayings, and Pema Chodron proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.Pema Chodron
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When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.Pema Chodron
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Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.Pema Chodron
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The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.Pema Chödrön
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We use all kinds of ways to escape – all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.Pema Chodron
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.Pema Chodron
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Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.Pema Chodron
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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warriors perspective and contact bodhichitta?Pema Chodron
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.Pema Chodron
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When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that's called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Pema Chodron
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.Pema Chodron
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Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.Pema Chodron
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Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds.Pema Chodron
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.Pema Chodron
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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.Pema Chodron
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.Pema Chodron
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Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.Pema Chodron
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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.Pema Chodron
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Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.Pema Chodron
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something usually ourselves.Pema Chodron
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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotionsPema Chodron
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Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.Pema Chodron
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete non-attachment all are synonyms for accumulating merit. Pema ChodronPema Chodron
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.Pema Chodron
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