Quotes from Pema Chodron
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
- Pema Chodron
Use your life to wake you up.
- Pema Chodron
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
- Pema Chodron
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
- Pema Chodron
When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
- Pema Chodron
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
- Pema Chodron
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
- Pema Chodron
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
- Pema Chodron
The future is the result of what we do right now.
- Pema Chodron
But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
- Pema Chodron
There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
- Pema Chodron
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
- Pema Chodron