Pema Chodron Quotes

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Evil to some is always good to others

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

That which you believe becomes your world

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

The foundations of society have cracked as a result of the revolutionary reforms....The definitions and boundary lines of good and evil have disappeared.

Good and evil lay side by side.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

Beliefs create reality

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

As you are, so is the world.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.