Pema Chodron Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Challenges, Inner Peace

• Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Needs, Helping

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

• 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Meditation, Joy

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