Pema Chodron Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Fire, Air

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

  Pema Chodron

  Energy, Moments, Uncomfortable

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.74, Shambhala Publications

• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Essence, Safety

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

• Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

  Pema Chodron

  Training, Energy, Abiding

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.130, Shambhala Publications

• Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Compassion, Self

• You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Learning, Energy

• When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

  Pema Chodron

  Struggle, Passion, Pride

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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