Pema Chodron Alive Quotations

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.