when things fall apart pema chödrön quotes

“ Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. “Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.” ― Pema Chödrön “The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.” ― Pema Chödrön We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.” ― Pema Chödrön “It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.” ― Pema Chödrön “None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.” ― Pema Chödrön “Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.” ― Pema Chödrön Learn How To Meditate Longer To Go Deeper Into Your Psyche

“Everybody loves something, even if it’s only tortillas.” ― Pema Chödrönĥ Grounding Meditation Scripts To Connect With The Earth “At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.” ― Pema Chödrön “The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.” ― Pema Chödrön Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.” ― Pema Chödrön “Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. “The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.” ― Pema Chödrön But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.” ― Pema Chödrön “When we resist change, it’s called suffering. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ― Pema Chödrön “True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.” ― Pema Chödrön

“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion. “We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people’s wrongness.” ― Pema Chödrön “Without giving up hope-that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be-we will never relax with where we are or who we are.” ― Pema Chödrön “When we protect ourselves so we won’t feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of the heart.” ― Pema Chödrön

When things fall apart pema chödrön quotes