In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion. — Joko Beck Compassion Copy Share Image
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and… — Joko Beck Faces Copy Share Image
There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is. — Joko Beck Life Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. — Joko Beck Hurt Copy Share Image
All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can… — Joko Beck Can do Copy Share Image
An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times. — Joko Beck Answer Copy Share Image
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality. — Joko Beck Dream Copy Share Image
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time,… — Joko Beck Degrees Copy Share Image
How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the… — Joko Beck Ifs Copy Share Image
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations… — Joko Beck Avoiding Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck About Copy Share Image
We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why… — Joko Beck Inspirational Copy Share Image
If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think… — Joko Beck Believe Copy Share Image
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not… — Joko Beck Angry Copy Share Image
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to… — Joko Beck Awareness Copy Share Image
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime.… — Joko Beck Beautiful Copy Share Image
We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain… — Joko Beck Caught Copy Share Image
To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like. — Joko Beck Decision making Copy Share Image
None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are. — Joko Beck Choose Copy Share Image
There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. — Joko Beck Ends Copy Share Image
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. — Joko Beck Anxiety Copy Share Image
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at… — Joko Beck Answers Copy Share Image
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the… — Joko Beck Awareness Copy Share Image
There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations,… — Joko Beck Bigger Copy Share Image
Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only… — Joko Beck Caught Copy Share Image
Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes… — Joko Beck Call me Copy Share Image
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or… — Joko Beck Education Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something,… — Joko Beck Absence Copy Share Image
Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints… — Joko Beck Demand Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Affection Copy Share Image
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find… — Joko Beck Anxiety Copy Share Image
Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely… — Joko Beck Changed Copy Share Image
