“What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“I am talking about something more than just the gauzy circle of life. Sure, you're older now and one day you're going to die, but before that, you have to *die*. Your child has arrived and the battle has been joined. It is the battle to the death of your ego. The demise of your selfishness and impatience. The end… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share
Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over. — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“...Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute of it… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share
“Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia seems like a harmless pastime until it renders you blind.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain.… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime,… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Love is what we are, when we drop all the things that stand in the way.” — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to be ready,… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
