“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
“PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“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
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