The Places That Scare You Quotes

“Cuando pensamos que somos incompetentes o que no tenemos remedio, ¿en qué nos estamos basando? ¿En este fugaz momento? ¿En el éxito o el fracaso de ayer? Nos aferramos a una idea fija de lo que somos y ésta nos paraliza. No hay nada ni nadie que sea fijo. Que la realidad del cambio nos dé libertad o nos produzca una horrible ansiedad no tiene importancia. Lo importante es preguntarnos: ¿los días de mi vida me producen más sufrimiento o aumentan mi capacidad para gozar?”
― Pema Chödrön, Los lugares que te asustan (The Places That Scare You): Convertir el miedo en fortaleza en tiempos difíciles (La Colleccion De Pema Chodron)

“Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.”
― Pema Chödrön, Los lugares que te asustan (The Places That Scare You): Convertir el miedo en fortaleza en tiempos difíciles (La Colleccion De Pema Chodron)

“All of us derive security and comfort from the imaginary world of memories and fantasies and plans. We really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Thus we become less and less able to reside with even the most fleeting uneasiness or discomfort. We become habituated to reaching for something to ease the edginess of the moment. What begins as a slight shift of energy—a minor tightening of our stomach, a vague, indefinable feeling that something bad is about to happen—escalates into addiction. This is our way of trying to make life predictable. Because we mistake what always results in suffering for what will bring us happiness, we remain stuck in the repetitious habit of escalating our dissatisfaction. In Buddhist terminology this vicious cycle is called samsara.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“A warrior begins to take responsibility for the direction of her life. It’s as if we are lugging around unnecessary baggage. Our training encourages us to open the bags and look closely at what we are carrying. In doing this we begin to understand that much of it isn’t needed anymore.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“May I enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May you enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May all beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I dedicate to the welfare of all beings. May the roots of suffering diminish. May warfare, violence, neglect, indifference, and addictions also decrease. May the wisdom and compassion of all beings increase, now and in the future. May we clearly see all the barriers we erect between ourselves and others to be as insubstantial as our dreams. May we appreciate the great perfection of all phenomena. May we continue to open our hearts and minds, in order to work ceaselessly for the benefit of all beings. May we go to the places that scare us. May we lead the life of a warrior.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“By learning to relax with groundlessness, we gradually connect with the mind that knows no fear.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“In the garden of gentle sanity May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or what ever, the next teacher is going to pop right up. —CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“To make things as easy as possible to under stand, we can summarize the four boundless qualities in the single phrase “a kind heart.” Just train yourself to have a kind heart always and in all situations. —PATRUL RINPOCHE”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. We stay with our own little plot of earth and trust that it can be cultivated, that cultivation will bring it to its full potential. Even though it’s full of rocks and the soil is dry, we begin to plow this plot with patience. We let the process evolve naturally.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one” might arise. Of the two witnesses—self and other—we’re the only one who knows the full truth about ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world: our own warfare as well as greater warfare.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“feel gratitude to the Buddha for pointing out that what we struggle against all our lives can be acknowledged as ordinary experience. Life does continually go up and down.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“The Buddhist teachings tell us that over the course of many lifetimes all beings have been our mothers. At one time, all these”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“At the beginning joy is just a feeling that our own situation is workable. We stop looking for a more suitable place to be. We’ve discovered that the continual search for something better does not work out. This doesn’t mean that there are suddenly flowers growing where before there were only rocks. It means we have confidence that something will grow here.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“The Beat poet Jack Kerouac, feeling primed for a spiritual breakthrough, wrote to a friend before he retreated into the wilderness, “If I don’t get a vision on Desolation Peak, then my name ain’t William Blake.” But later he wrote that he found it hard to face the naked truth. “I’d thought, in June when I get to the top . . . and everybody leaves . . . I will come face to face with God or Tathagata (Buddha) and find out once and for all what is the meaning of all this existence and suffering . . . but instead I’d come face to face with myself, no liquor, no drugs, no chance of faking it, but face to face with ole Hateful . . . Me.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Coming back to the present moment takes some effort, but the effort is very light. The instruction is to “touch and go.” We touch thoughts by acknowledging them as thinking and then we let them go. It’s a way of relaxing our struggle, like touching a bubble with a feather. It’s a nonaggressive approach to being here.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“The practice is compassionate inquiry into our moods, our emotions, our thoughts.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“Thus we become less and less able to reside with even the most fleeting uneasiness or discomfort... This is our way of trying to make life predictable. Because we mistake what always results in suffering for what will bring us happiness, we remain stuck in the repetitious habit of escalating our dissatisfaction.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE T”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“The key is to be here, fully connected with the moment, paying attention to the details of ordinary life. By taking care of ordinary things—our pots and pans, our clothing, our teeth—we rejoice in them. When we scrub a vegetable or brush our hair, we are expressing appreciation: friendship toward ourselves and toward the living quality that is found in everything. This combination of mindfulness and appreciation connects us fully with reality and brings us joy. When we extend attention and appreciation toward our environment and other people, our experience of joy gets even bigger. In”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, “Everybody loves something, even if it’s only tortillas.” Bodhichitta”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate—is always changing, moment to moment.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it’s also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“An analogy for bodhichitta is the rawness of a broken heart. Sometimes this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment, and blame.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice. If”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times