Pema Chodron Quotes

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

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

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I'm at peace.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.