Pema Chodron Quotes

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

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.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

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.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.