Wisdom from Ven. Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
27 Aug 2013
But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
30 Aug 2013
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
-Pema Chödrön
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
6 Jun 2013
Rather than always trying to get security, you begin to develop an attitude of wanting to step into uncharted territory.
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7 Sep 2023
You keep thinking, erroneously, "Well, other people have it together, and if I could just scramble enough, I could avoid all these bad feelings."
And the Buddha said no, it's a myth to think that you can get all the pieces to line up so that everything goes your way.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
8 Apr 2014
Rather than beating yourself up, use your own stuckness as a stepping stone to understanding what people are up against all over the world.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
25 Oct 2013
Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life,& we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
11 Jan 2014
We’re afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever.... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
25 Jan 2014
With our minds we make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, and out of our problems.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
25 Oct 2013
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
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12 Apr 2014
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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Pema Chödrön Quotes retweeted
16 Apr 2014
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
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1 Jun 2014
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
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1 Jun 2014
[W]e have a lot of opinions, and we tend to take them as truth. But actually they aren’t truth. They are just our opinions. -Pema Chödrön
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31 May 2014
Finally, never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. -Pema Chödrön
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31 May 2014
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be... and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are.
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16 Apr 2014
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be... or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
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15 Apr 2014
You’ve been angry, jealous, and lonely. You know what it’s like and you know how sometimes you do strange things.
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13 Apr 2014
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness.
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13 Apr 2014
[Egolessness is:] not being at all sure about who we are—or who anyone else is either.
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