Pema Chodron Quotes

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

I am calm most of the time.

I am permanently relaxed.

I like to keep a calm set.

I'm still trying to figure out being calm.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.