Quotes by : Pema Chödrön

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions....

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view,....

Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have....

Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of....

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are,....

In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature....

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work....

In the present moment we can always realize that the ground is to develop loving-kindness toward ourselves.....

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more....

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.