Category: Quotes

One of the most powerful ways to stay grounded in any conversation is to set a clear intention ahead of time. Intention is about how you wish to be in the interaction, rather than aiming for a specific outcome. What values do you want to embody this holiday season? What’s your purpose for getting together?… Continue reading Quote for the Week

A crucial part of our practice, speech is something we can engage with even on days when we cannot sit in formal meditation. Our practice with speech includes the words that we direct to ourselves (perhaps with an unkindness we’d never use with others) and the words that we write in texts and emails and… Continue reading Quote for the Week

Through wise understanding we deeply intuit the legacy of losses that we share with other living beings, and through wise intention we find an ever-growing resolve to respond to all life with compassion. How to Practice Wise Intention ~ Sylvia Boorstein

Sometimes, realizing that an experience is impermanent, we can relax with how it is, including its coming and going. Other times, seeing that change is inevitable helps us to let go of clinging to how things are or resistance to change. And sometimes recognizing that we are all equal in being subject to aging, sickness,… Continue reading Quote for the Week

View represents our core assumptions and premises that create our very perception of the world and ourselves. How we think, speak, and act is controlled by our view. We always have some view directing and controlling our actions, even if that view is unconscious. The view we operate from can be constantly shifting from circumstance… Continue reading Quote for the Week

From the beginning, the path of awakening includes all aspects of our human lives: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social. The aim is a mindful life. This means that our relationship to our consumerist economic system, our parenting, and our politics are all part of the path. This approach to living fully is outlined in… Continue reading Quote for the Week

People ask, if the Eightfold Path is a path, where does it go? And the answer is, the path doesn’t go from here to there, it goes from there to here. It takes us from being lost, to coming back to the freedom of wisdom and love just where we are. Where Does the Eightfold… Continue reading Quote for the Week

If you let go a little, you’ll have a little happiness. If you let go a lot, you’ll have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely . . . you’ll be completely happy.” The Third Noble Truth-The Noble Truth of the End of Suffering Ajahn Chah, quoted by Rick Hanson:

The Buddha’s instructions to abandon clinging to desires translates into caring without demanding, loving without imposing conditions, and moving toward your goals without attachment.” [Moffitt, Dancing with Life, p. 102]. Skillful Understanding: The Four Noble Truths Cause

In addition to what is happening in the moment, we resist painful experiences by fearing them before they begin, and by dwelling on them after they have occurred. Of course, it’s natural to have other preferences when you experience pain. But when you get attached to those preferences, that’s when suffering begins. The Second Noble… Continue reading Quote for the Week