Quotes by : Pema Chödrön

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

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and....

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki....

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves....

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

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against....

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences,....

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity,....

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

When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China)....