Pema Chodron Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

• When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Pain, Helping Others

  "Good Medicine For This World". Discussion at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1999.

• The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Walking Meditation, Ignorant

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

• If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

  Pema Chodron

  Love, Teaching, Practice

• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Eye, Awareness, Blink

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Stories, Awareness

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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