“What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we’re stuck.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind—changing, changing, changing.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything—not about winning or losing—but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if you can be willing to feel fully and acknowledge continually your own sadness and the sadness of life, but at the same time not be drowned in it, because you also remember the vision and power of the Great Eastern Sun, you experience balance and completeness, joining heaven and earth, joining vision and practicality.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
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