All PEMA CHODRON Quotes about “Buddhism”

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.”
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.”
“This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.”
“In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.”
“Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.”
“Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.”
“Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.”
“Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.”
“We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.”
“As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.”
“As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.”
“Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.”

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