Pema Chodron quotes.

“The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting them control you.”

“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”

“We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.”

“To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.”

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”

“To live is to be willing to die over and over again.”

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty.”

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather.”