Pema Chodron Quotes about Heart - Page 2

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The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

Pema Chodron

Karma, Teaching, Heart

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

Pema Chodron

Determination, Heart, Mean

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

Pema Chodron

Heart

Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

Pema Chodron

Heart, Giving, Laughing

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.

Pema Chodron

Buddhist, Pain, Heart

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

Pema Chodron

Heart, Ideas, Mind

If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

Pema Chodron

Religious, Peace, Heart

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Pema Chodron

Rain, Heart, Dark

"The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chodron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

Pema Chodron

Hurt, Pain, Heart

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Pema Chodron

Heart, Dark, Thinking

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.109, Shambhala Publications