Quotes by Pema Chodron

"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

Pema Chodron

"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless."

Pema Chodron

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."

Pema Chodron

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."

Pema Chodron

"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment."

Pema Chodron

"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment."

Pema Chodron

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

Pema Chodron

"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens."

Pema Chodron