Pema Chodron Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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

• Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

  Pema Chodron

  Understanding, Vulnerable, Moments

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

• Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

  Pema Chodron

  Self, Essence, Bravery

• It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

  Pema Chodron

  Self, Understanding, Patterns

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

• The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Ideas, Confusion, Understanding

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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