The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.
– Pema Chdrn
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- there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
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- Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. – EA Bucchianeri
- Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
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- There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. – Pema Chdrn
- Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – 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 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
- 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
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
- It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn
- Sitting meditation begins with good posture. – 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
- The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us. – Pema Chdrn
- One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. – Pema Chdrn
- The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. – Pema Chdrn
- Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
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- PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
- they that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by – Anonymous
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
- If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true? – Lecrea
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
- It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort. – Jojo Moyes
- Mister Win-Win says it’s always okay to pretend. He says that’s the only way to feel happy sometimes. – Lauren Cagliola Green
- Mister Win-Win says it’s always okay to pretend… He says that’s the only way to feel happy sometimes. – Lauren Cagliola Green
- nothing but a soul can feel what the heart says nothing but a soul can understand what the mind says. – Sarah ell
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it. – AJ Darkholme
- We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form – just as we have since the day we were born. – The Truth
- Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn’t exist. – George Orwell
- Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
- God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser