Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
PEMA CHODRONThe essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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