Quotes by Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

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The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous m — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on th — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. (...). One thing that is very hel — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate w — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, th — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid be — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizin — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we ar — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whe — Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World