Pema Chodron Quotes

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.