Pema Chodron Quotes

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.