Pema Chodron Quotes

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Be available for life to happen.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

I try to take each moment at a time.