Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that youโre sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, youโre coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.
Pema ChodronThe idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.
Pema ChodronIf you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more
Pema ChodronResistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
Pema ChodronBlaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
Pema Chodron