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.
Pema ChodronWe are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
Pema ChodronUsually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
Pema ChodronDiscomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
Pema ChodronThat nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.
Pema Chodron