Pema Chodron — Spiritual Quotes

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Pema Chodron Quotes

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Pema Chodron

Buddhist Teacher, Author

Spiritual

“We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.”

Inspirational Spiritual Buddhist

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Pema Chodron

Buddhist Teacher, Author

Spiritual

“Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.”

Sleep Our Lives Allowing

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Spiritual

“We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.”

Running Spiritual Stories

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Spiritual

“We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake”

Eye Awakening

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Spiritual

“None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.”

Fine

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Spiritual

“The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.”

Crazy Joy Meditation

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Spiritual

“There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.”

Spiritual Practice Four

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Spiritual

“When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.”

Heart Pain Armor

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Spiritual

“In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest”

Way Long Meditation

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Spiritual

“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.”

Running Discovery Meditation

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Spiritual

“It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.”

Spiritual Inspiring Get Well

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Spiritual

“A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.”

Cutting Ambition Negativity

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