Quotes
Authors
Pema Chodron

"â€¦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 weâ€™re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel weâ€™d rather collapse and back away. Theyâ€™re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where weâ€™re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, itâ€™s with us wherever we are."

-- Pema Chodron

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“In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”
“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”
“Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.”
“Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.”
“We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.”
“Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being â€œin loveâ€, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
“Do the truth quietly without display.”
“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.”

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