Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.Pema Chodron
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.”
Buddhist nun and author · born 1936
Pema Chodron is an American nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and a widely read author and teacher. Her books, including When Things Fall Apart, bring Buddhist teachings on compassion and difficulty to a broad audience.
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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.Pema Chodron
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You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.Pema Chodron
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.Pema Chodron
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.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
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.Pema Chodron