Pema Chodron Quotes

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you’re always standing at the center of the world.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we’re feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.