What did Pema Chodron mean by: Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher Copy
+ Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Brave, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Only Time, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Letting go, Noble, Suffering, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Buddhism, Culture, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Emotional, Self, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Growing Up, Grows, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Friendly, Good Friend, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
+ The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pema Chodron, Joy, Obstacles, Resentment, 0 - Pema Chodron Buddhist nun and teacher
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
