Pema Chodron Quotes

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

People have weaknesses, we should accept it.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart