Pema Chodron Self Quotations
Pema Chodron Quotes about:
Self Quotes from:
- All Self Quotes
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Deepak Chopra
- Eric Hoffer
- Albert Bandura
- Mason Cooley
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Swami Vivekananda
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Bruce Lee
- C S Lewis
- Eckhart Tolle
- Carl Jung
- Dalai Lama
- Wayne Dyer
- Marianne Williamson
- Aristotle
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Crazy Quotes
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.
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Meditation Practice Quotes
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
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Mistake Quotes
At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.
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Suffering Quotes
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.
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Wise Quotes
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.