22 quotes
We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.
Against the Stream (2007)
Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.
Against the Stream (2007)
Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.
The Heart of the Revolution (2011)
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (2003)
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (2003)
As we walk the path of Refuge Recovery, we gradually uncover a loving heart.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (2003)
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Against the Stream (2007)
Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content.
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (2003)
The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.
The Heart of the Revolution (2011)
The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Against the Stream (2007)
We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the truth that addiction creates suffering.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.
Against the Stream (2007)
Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind.
Refuge Recovery (2014)
Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
Against the Stream (2007)
The cause of our suffering has always been our reaction to the thoughts, feelings, cravings, and circumstances of our lives. The cause of our addictions has always been the indulgence in the behaviors or substances.
Refuge Recovery (2014)