Pema Chodron Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Circumstances

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

• The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Choices, Empathy

• Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

  Pema Chodron

  Irritation, Choices, Rawness

  "Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield talk "The Wondrous Path of Difficulties". Interview with Michael Krasny, www.lionsroar.com. 2005.

• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Suffering, Relax

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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