Bodhichitta Quotes

#1. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta

Pema Chodron

#2. Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

Pema Chodron

#3. When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior's perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Pema Chodron

#4. We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.

Pema Chodron

#5. An analogy for bodhichitta is the rawness of a broken heart. Sometimes this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment, and blame.

Pema Chodron

#6. Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

Je Tsongkhapa

#7. As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta

Pema Chodron

#8. Even when our neurosis feels far more basic than our wisdom, even when we're feeling most confused and hopeless, bodhichitta - like the open sky - is always here, undiminished by the clouds that temporarily cover it.

Pema Chodron

#9. when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping

Pema Chodron

#10. I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

Romola Garai

#11. He depressed the rudder, and the Red Cloud shot earthward. Then, as the airship was turned about, the young inventor was allowed to try his hand at managing it. He said, afterward, that it was like guiding a fleecy cloud.

Victor Appleton

#12. Sugar," said Kaz.
Jesper nudged the sugar bowl down the table to him.
Kaz rolled his eyes. "Not for my coffee, you podge.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. When love was perfect, it would always cast out fear.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

Kid Rock

#15. As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

Joshua Teya

#16. He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Jean De La Bruyere

#17. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Truth becomes the foundation for every other life task.

Sherrie Eldridge

#19. It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.

Tea Obreht