Pema Chodron Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

  Pema Chodron

  Happiness, Spiritual, Peace

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

• Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Ideas, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

• Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Wall, Honesty, Moving

• We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Reality, Two

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

• Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Acceptance, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

• According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Goes On, Belief

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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