Quotes from Pema Chodron

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?