Pema Chödrön

“Bodhichitta is the soft spot, the place where we are tender and open.”

“Awakened heart is just another name for bodhichitta.”

“You are the only one who can give you the kind of love that you really long for.”

“Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.”

“To be fully human is to be in process.”

“Run, don't walk to that practice. The pain in this moment is your teacher.”

“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”

“The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

“Whatever you meet, that is the path.”

“You're not what you think you are. You're vast and unknowable.”

“Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well.”

“To stay with that shakiness — to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness — that is the path of true awakening.”

“Maitri — unconditional friendliness toward oneself — is the basis of all spiritual practice.”

“As we learn to make friends with our restlessness, our anxiety, and our fear, we also learn to relax with reality just as it is.”

“It's only by going into the storm that we can find our way through.”

“The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's to befriend who we are already.”

“Start where you are. This is very important.”

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

“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”