25 quotes
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
We all need to be reminded and encouraged to relax with whatever arises and bring whatever we encounter to the path.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it’s where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
But the Buddhist teachings are not only about removing the symptoms of suffering, they’re about actually removing the cause, or the root, of suffering.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don’t do either of those things.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Through meditation, we’re able to see clearly what’s going on with our thoughts and emotions, and we can also let them go.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
But there is that feeling. And there’s always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, “Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?”
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)