Quotes About Emotions

But when the tables are turned and we feel wretched, that softens us up. It ripens our hearts. It becomes the ground for understanding others.

But the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating from fear is what we do naturally. We habitually spin off and freak out when there's even the merest hint of fear. We feel it coming and we check out.

None of what we've learned seems very relevant when our lover leaves us, when our child has a tantrum in the supermarket, when we're insulted by our colleague.

This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion.

elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are.

We can explore the nature of that piece of shit. We can know the nature of dislike, shame, and embarrassment and not believe there's something wrong with that. We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there. It's better to take a straight look at all our hopes and fears.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

If your everyday practice is to open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that — then that will take you as far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating from fear is what we do naturally.

We put up protective walls made of opinions, prejudices, and strategies, barriers that are built on a deep fear of being hurt. These walls are further fortified by emotions of all kinds: anger, craving, indifference, jealousy and envy, arrogance and pride.

the difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same.

Klesha mara is characterized by strong emotions. Instead of letting feelings be, we weave them into a story line, which gives rise to even bigger emotions.

The first noble truth says that it's part of being human to feel discomfort

An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.

We're able to see how we run and hide and keep ourselves busy so that we never have to let our hearts be penetrated.

In the early seventies, a friend kept saying to me, '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 - anything you can do to work with those things - do it., please, because it will be such an inspiration to other people.

When we regard thoughts and emotions with humor and openness, that's how we perceive the universe.

BY WEAVING our opinions, prejudices, strategies, and emotions into a solid reality, we try to make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, out of our problems. But things are not as solid, predictable, or seamless as they seem.

Tu mente es como un cubo de basura chiflado que grita».

The practice is compassionate inquiry into our moods, our emotions, our thoughts.

Rather than trying to get rid of something or buying into a dualistic sense of being attacked, we take the opportunity to see how we close down when we're squeezed.

we are all addicted to avoiding pain.

The irony is that what we most want to avoid in our lives is crucial to awakening bodhichitta. These juicy emotional spots are where a warrior gains wisdom and compassion. Of course, we'll want to get out of those spots far more often than we'll want to stay. That's why self-compassion and courage are vital. Without loving-kindness, staying with pain is just warfare.

many of our mood swings are related to how we interpret what happens. If we look closely at our mood swings, we'll notice that something always sets them off. We carry around a subjective reality that is continually triggering our emotional reactions.