Pema Chodron Needs Quotations

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

We already have everything we need.

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.