Quotes About Emotions

If we can practice when we're jealous, resentful, scornful, when we hate ourselves, then we are well trained.

We turn our emotions into frozen objects and invest them with truth, and as a result they have so much power over us.

Whatever you do, don't try to make those feelings go away." His advice went on: "Anything you can learn about working with your sense of discouragement or your sense of fear or your sense of bewilderment or your sense of feeling inferior or your sense of resentment—anything you can do to work with those things—do it, please, because it will be such an inspiration to other people.

Remembering impermanence motivates you to go back and look at the teachings, to see what they tell you about how to work with your life, how to rouse yourself, how to cheer up, how to work with emotions.

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

Pero bajo la dureza de esta armadura, se oculta la terneza de una genuina tristeza

Emotions cannot take off and escalate if the mind is steady.

When you hold a fixed idea of yourself, you have to leave out all the parts that you find boring, embarrassing, difficult, or sad. You leave out the emotions you don't want to feel. And then when you do that, when you leave out all those parts, when those parts are not acceptable, then it eats away at you underneath. These unacknowledged parts are like a hum in the background that's eating away at you, and you have to find an escape to get away from that.

Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself—making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don't magically disappear. Over the years, I've come to call resting with the discomfort "the detox period," because when you don't act on your habitual reactions, it's like giving up an addiction. You're left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that.

We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right now we are creating our state of mind for tomorrow, not to mention this afternoon, next week, next year, and all the years of our lives.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

How we regard what arises in meditation is training for how we regard whatever arises in the rest of our lives.

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.

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.

In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.