All PEMA CHODRON Quotes about “Heart”

“So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.”
“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.”
“The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.”
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.”
“When Things Fall Apartâ€ and I quote â€œLife is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.”
“If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. Thatâ€™s the true practice of peace.”
“If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.”
“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.”

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