Dreams Quote by Pema Chodron — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”

“My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.”

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

“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”