When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and… — Brenda Shoshanna Able Copy Share Image
We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it. — Brenda Shoshanna All kinds Copy Share Image
Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs… — Brenda Shoshanna Different Copy Share Image
Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness. — Brenda Shoshanna Happiness Copy Share Image
This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as… — Brenda Shoshanna Blooming Copy Share Image
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a… — Brenda Shoshanna Anxiety Copy Share Image
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment. — Brenda Shoshanna Choices Copy Share Image
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. — Brenda Shoshanna Action Copy Share Image
We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip… — Brenda Shoshanna Attention Copy Share Image
If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost. — Brenda Shoshanna Eye Copy Share Image
When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to… — Brenda Shoshanna Add Copy Share Image
Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now. — Brenda Shoshanna Asks Copy Share Image
Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves. — Brenda Shoshanna Accept Copy Share Image
What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle. — Brenda Shoshanna Cycle Copy Share Image
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become. — Brenda Shoshanna Attention Copy Share Image
All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad. — Brenda Shoshanna Judged Copy Share Image
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). — Brenda Shoshanna Anger Copy Share Image
All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves. — Brenda Shoshanna Conflict Copy Share Image
In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the… — Brenda Shoshanna Breath Copy Share Image
When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Accepting Copy Share Image
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of… — Brenda Shoshanna Attachment Copy Share Image
In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give… — Brenda Shoshanna Be who you are Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Able Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and… — Brenda Shoshanna Able Copy Share Image
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as… — Brenda Shoshanna Change Copy Share Image
Do you have the patience to wait Till your mind settles And the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving Till the… — Brenda Shoshanna Actions quotes Copy Share Image
“Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else.… — Brenda Shoshanna Accepting Copy Share Image
Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value… — Brenda Shoshanna Action Copy Share Image
Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for… — Brenda Shoshanna Amazed Copy Share Image
When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the… — Brenda Shoshanna Approach Copy Share Image
God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still. — Brenda Shoshanna Felt Copy Share Image
Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the… — Brenda Shoshanna Bases Copy Share Image
we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without. — Brenda Shoshanna Clean house Copy Share Image
All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are. — Brenda Shoshanna Insight Copy Share Image
