Pema Chodron Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Wisdom, Fear

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

• It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Wisdom, Alive

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

• 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

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Spiritual

• It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

• Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Wisdom, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

• As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Wisdom

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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