All Marc Ian Barasch Quotes
- Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met… Acceptance
- For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody. All
- Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A… Accustoming
- Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist… Bare
- The dark and the light are braided and bound. Bound
- The world as dreamed and the world as lived cross-pollinate each other. Cross
- Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time. All
- I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then… Benignly
- Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting… Able
- A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case,… Case
- We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream… All
- By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for… Achievement
- Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… All
- A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by… Asking
- Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love… Action