We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.


Awakening Loving-Kindness (ed. Shambhala Publications, 1996) - ISBN: 9780834821194

Pema Chödrön Quotes

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara...

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara...

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara...

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara...