Pema Chodron Quotes

Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Yoga has always been a part of my life, and it has had a major effect on me as a person, inside-out.

My dad taught me a lot of meditative techniques. I used that to my advantage.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

I always used to be like, 'I don't need to meditate.' And it's not true.

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

I just do my best, that's all. I don't give myself pressure.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.