Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
Pema ChodronCompassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
Pema ChodronAll the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
Pema Chodron