Pema Chodron Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Inspirational Love, Peace

• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Disappointment, Irritation

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

• Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Friends, Teacher

• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Hope, Teacher

• This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Irritation, Perfect

• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

• Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, People, Difficult

  "The Places That Scare You". Book by Pema Chödrön, 2001.

• The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Giving Up, Might

• Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Situation

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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