Pema Chodron Quotes

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?