Pema Chodron QUOTES

We meet our edge in the strangest places, like when we can’t get a good cup of coffee. We’re willing to jump off a bridge upside down, [...]
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better [...]
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness [...]
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions
The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness. When something comes up in your life that causes you [...]
It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering.  
The Buddha called impermanence one of the three distinguishing marks of our existence, an incontrovertible fact of life. But it’s [...]
As human beings we share a tendency to scramble for certainty whenever we realize that everything around us is in flux. In difficult times the stress of trying to find solid ground—something predictable and safe to stand on—seems to intensify. But in truth, the very nature of our existence is forever in flux. Everything keeps changing, whether we’re aware of it or not.  
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