Joan Halifax

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea,…

— Joan Halifax

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion…

— Joan Halifax

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

— Joan Halifax

We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and…

— Joan Halifax

All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work;…

— Joan Halifax

“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.”

— Joan Halifax

“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live…

— Joan Halifax

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own…

— Joan Halifax

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

— Joan Halifax

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

— Joan Halifax

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is…

— Joan Halifax

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."…

— Joan Halifax

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do…

— Joan Halifax

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

— Joan Halifax

Cease consuming, practice generosity.

— Joan Halifax

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to…

— Joan Halifax

Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward…

— Joan Halifax

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and…

— Joan Halifax

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can…

— Joan Halifax

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury;…

— Joan Halifax

I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be…

— Joan Halifax

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

— Joan Halifax

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

— Joan Halifax

[I'm inspired by ] courageous young people who take a stand and go into the field to serve; really old people who…

— Joan Halifax

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

— Joan Halifax