Pema Chodron Quotes

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'

I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

I wonder what my speech would be.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.