Pema Chodron Quotes

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

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

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

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

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

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.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I'm at peace.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

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.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

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

Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.