Pema Chodron Quotes (14+)

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

If we're willing to stay even a little bit with the uncomfortable energy, we learn that it's just energy.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

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

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

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

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment