Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? ~ Pema Chodron

A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. ~ Pena Chodron

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. ~ Pema Chodron

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron