Joan Halifax Quotes

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• If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed…
• May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.
• Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not…
• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return…
• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a…
• All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.
• We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
• In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this:…
• Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.
• When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.
• Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
• Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you…
• In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to…
• When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine…
• The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the…
• Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
• I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their…
• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion,…
• There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is…

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