Pema Chödrön Quotes

Wisdom from Ven. Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition.

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But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

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Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
-Pema Chödrön

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Rather than always trying to get security, you begin to develop an attitude of wanting to step into uncharted territory.

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You keep thinking, erroneously, "Well, other people have it together, and if I could just scramble enough, I could avoid all these bad feelings."
And the Buddha said no, it's a myth to think that you can get all the pieces to line up so that everything goes your way.

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Rather than beating yourself up, use your own stuckness as a stepping stone to understanding what people are up against all over the world.

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Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life,& we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move.

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We’re afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever.... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

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With our minds we make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, and out of our problems.

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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

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We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

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All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

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[W]e have a lot of opinions, and we tend to take them as truth. But actually they aren’t truth. They are just our opinions. -Pema Chödrön

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Finally, never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. -Pema Chödrön

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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be... and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are.

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We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be... or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

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You’ve been angry, jealous, and lonely. You know what it’s like and you know how sometimes you do strange things.

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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness.

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[Egolessness is:] not being at all sure about who we are—or who anyone else is either.