“Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.” — Norman Fischer Buddhism Copy Share Image
“So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if… — Norman Fischer Nature Copy Share Image
“The actions, thoughts, and words of each of us are important. All of us together are making the world. So we have… — Norman Fischer Life Copy Share Image
“Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don’t open up. We know we have to do it. And as… — Norman Fischer Life Copy Share Image
“In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that… — Norman Fischer Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
“A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn’t be that person. Why… — Norman Fischer Identity Copy Share Image
“The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we… — Norman Fischer Love Copy Share Image
“When we sit we recognize the crucial, divine importance of absolutely everything that arises—every thought, every feeling, every breath, every unspeakable, unnameable… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to… — Norman Fischer Change Copy Share Image
“Obviously it won’t do to love somebody and enjoy that person’s company but then, when things between you get difficult, to abandon… — Norman Fischer Business Copy Share Image
“Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something.… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“This doesn’t work by thought and will. It doesn’t disregard thought and will, but thought and will are not the engine that… — Norman Fischer Present moment Copy Share Image
“Although we don’t like to think about it, it seems that sorrow and suffering are inevitable in any human life, even a… — Norman Fischer Art of life Copy Share Image
“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass… — Norman Fischer Healing Copy Share Image
“The Chinese ideograph for forbearance is a heart with a sword dangling over it, another instance of language's brilliant way of showing… — Norman Fischer Bad reputation Copy Share Image
