The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in. — Sylvia Boorstein Mind Copy Share Image
“We don’t get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.” — Sylvia Boorstein Choice Copy Share Image
Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is. — Sylvia Boorstein Demand Copy Share Image
“May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.” — Sylvia Boorstein Friendship Copy Share Image
“... you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to… — Sylvia Boorstein Pain Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful. — Sylvia Boorstein Being truthful Copy Share Image
“Hatred will never cease by hatred, Only love will erase hatred, This is the eternal law.” — Sylvia Boorstein Love Copy Share Image
“... Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].” — Sylvia Boorstein Fear Copy Share Image
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. — Sylvia Boorstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. — Sylvia Boorstein Acceptance Copy Share Image
Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. — Sylvia Boorstein Inspirational Copy Share Image
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose. — Sylvia Boorstein Choice Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving… — Sylvia Boorstein Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even… — Sylvia Boorstein Feeling terrible Copy Share Image
“... every single act we do has the potential of causing pain, and every single thing we do has consequences that echo… — Sylvia Boorstein Causing pain Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and… — Sylvia Boorstein Appreciation Copy Share Image
“I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I… — Sylvia Boorstein Fear Copy Share Image
“I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation… — Sylvia Boorstein Life Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“... although I knew what issues had been most difficult for me in my life, I may not have known the depth… — Sylvia Boorstein Feelings Copy Share Image
When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being… — Sylvia Boorstein Alive Copy Share Image
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose… — Sylvia Boorstein Attention Copy Share Image
I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response,… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to… — Sylvia Boorstein Appreciation Copy Share Image
“... life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].” — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.” — Sylvia Boorstein Buddha Copy Share Image
“I would not ask you to do this practice, to undertake this path of liberation from the habits of suffering mind, unless… — Sylvia Boorstein Freedom Copy Share Image
Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is… — Sylvia Boorstein Balance Copy Share Image
If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime… — Sylvia Boorstein Life Copy Share Image
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