Pema Chodron Quotes

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

Everything is going to change.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

In chaos there is opportunity

Crisis creates leverage to change.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Chaos is a terrible thing to waste.