Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
– Pema Chdrn
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- Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn
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- Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
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- Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
- The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. – Pema Chdrn
- there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
- Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
- If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chdrn
- PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
- God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions. – Sam Owen
- Do we use thoughts as a medium to convey our emotions, or use our emotions to convey thoughts! – Ramana Pemmaraju
- Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love in your mind gives you strength.Love in your heart gives you fortitude.Love in your soul gives you influence.Love in your life gives you power. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
- You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. – Steven Pressfield
- With strength you can move rocks.With faith you can move mountains.With love you can move the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun. – NJ Hallard
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- We do not have bodies-”we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways. – Christopher Zzenn Loren
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- This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison