Pema Chodron Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Spiritual, Learning

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

• Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

• 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

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

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Determination, Commitment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Loneliness, Humanity

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

• Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Life Is, Glorious

• 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

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