If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
Pema ChodronThe essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
Pema ChodronThe essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?
Pema ChodronLife's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
Pema Chodron