Pema Chodron Quotes about Feelings

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Feel the feelings and drop the story.

Pema Chodron

Feelings, Stories, Feels

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Pema Chodron

Feelings, Irritated, Hopeless

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

Pema Chodron

Peace, Challenges, Feelings

Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.

Pema Chodron

Hurt, People, Feelings

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

Pema Chodron

Our World, Missing, Feelings

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.

Pema Chodron

Car, Feelings, Three

"Take Three Conscious Breaths". www.lionsroar.com. April 2, 2017.

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

Pema Chodron

Ego, Feelings, Acting

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Pema Chodron

Reality, Space, Feelings

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.102, Shambhala Publications