Pema Chodron Quotes

Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you listening?

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Heaven is within you.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.