Big Books of Spring

Laura Henri > Laura's Quotes

Showing 1-14 of 14
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Pema Chödrön
    “People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.”
    ― Pema Chodron
    tags: buddhism, shambhala
    466 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Pema Chödrön
    “The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
    ― Pema Chodron
    911 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Pema Chödrön
    “We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society.

    It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.”
    ― Pema Chodron
    tags: blame, compassion, inspiration
    267 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Pema Chödrön
    “I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.”
    ― Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    252 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Pema Chödrön
    “Our habitual patterns are, of course, well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wishing for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Mindfulness and awareness are key. Do we see the stories that we’re telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by a strong emotion, do we remember that it is part of our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can’t practice when distracted but know that we can’t, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what’s going on.”
    ― Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
    36 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Pema Chödrön
    “A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet. To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
    tags: life
    9 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Pema Chödrön
    “You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you know, just “gimme a break!” But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what’s outside your room grows.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
    tags: happiness, life, way
    6 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Pema Chödrön
    “The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
    tags: way
    17 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Pema Chödrön
    “The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.”
    ― Pema Chodron
    76 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Dean Spade
    “The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
    ― Dean Spade
    tags: polyamory
    113 likes

    • like
  • #11
    “A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live”
    ― Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
    tags: cosmology, ecosexuality, gaia, new-science, peace, polyamory, tantra
    67 likes

    • like
  • #12
    David Rovics
    “They'll say you are bad
    or perhaps you are mad
    or at least you
    should stay undercover.
    Your mind must be bare
    if you would dare
    to think you can love
    more than one lover.”
    ― David Rovics
    tags: agape, believe, betrayal, break-up, broken, cheat, cheater, cheating, closet, commitment, communication, consent, control, cry, depressed, desire, dirty, divorce, divorced, dream, empowering, end, ended, eros, family, fear, feelings, feminism, forever, freedom, friends, friendship, gone, happiness, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearts, honesty, horny, human, humanity, hurt, infidelity, jealousy, jerk, keep, keeper, keepers, live, lost, lovers, monogamy, nasty, need, nonmonogamy, pain, partners, peace, plural, polyamory, polyandry, polycule, polygamy, polygyny, possessive, quad, queer, real, relationship, respect, romantic, sad, share, sharing, slut, sluts, sorrow, spice, spouse, stay, suffering, sweet, sweethearts, swinging, team, threesome, time, triad, trouble, truth, undercover, unfaithful, unicorn, unity, valentine, valentines, value, wisdom, wishes, yolo
    278 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Pema Chödrön
    “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”
    ― Pema Chodron
    tags: ecsbjy
    188 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Pema Chödrön
    “The essence of life is that it’s challenging.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
    tags: life
    9 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Laura’s Quotes

buddhism
shambhala
blame
compassion
inspiration
life
happiness
way
polyamory
cosmology
ecosexuality
gaia
new-science
peace
tantra
agape
believe
betrayal
break-up
broken
cheat
cheater
cheating
closet
commitment
communication
consent
control
cry
depressed
desire
dirty
divorce
divorced
dream
empowering
end
ended
eros
family
fear
feelings
feminism
forever
freedom
friends
friendship
gone
heartbreak
heartbroken
hearts
honesty
horny
human
humanity
hurt
infidelity
jealousy
jerk
keep
keeper
keepers
live
lost
lovers
monogamy
nasty
need
nonmonogamy
pain
partners
plural
polyandry
polycule
polygamy
polygyny
possessive
quad
queer
real
relationship
respect
romantic
sad
share
sharing
slut
sluts
sorrow
spice
spouse
stay
suffering
sweet
sweethearts
swinging
team
threesome
time
triad
trouble
truth
undercover
unfaithful
unicorn
unity
valentine
valentines
value
wisdom
wishes
yolo
ecsbjy