Famous Pema Chdrn Quotes

  • Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. – Pema Chdrn

    Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.– Pema Chdrn

  • It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn

    It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.– Pema Chdrn

  • Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn

    Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.– Pema Chdrn

  • Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn

    Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.– Pema Chdrn

  • In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. – Pema Chdrn

    In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.– Pema Chdrn

  • Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. – Pema Chdrn

    Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.– Pema Chdrn

  • IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite. – Pema Chdrn

    IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite.– Pema Chdrn

  • Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn

    Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.– Pema Chdrn

  • Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – Pema Chdrn

    Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters– Pema Chdrn

  • There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. – Pema Chdrn

    There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.– Pema Chdrn