Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. — Sylvia Boorstein Acceptance Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Able Copy Share Image
The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment… — Sylvia Boorstein Attachment Copy Share Image
If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with… — Sylvia Boorstein Bits Copy Share Image
When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or… — Sylvia Boorstein Accepting Copy Share Image
“... if anger arises in the mind in response to an outside event, it's helpful to look for either the saddening or… — Sylvia Boorstein Anger Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to… — Sylvia Boorstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime… — Sylvia Boorstein Life Copy Share Image
“The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated… — Sylvia Boorstein Buddha Copy Share Image
We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to… — Sylvia Boorstein Appreciation Copy Share Image
“Everything is always changing. "There is a cause-and-effect lawfulness that governs all unfolding experience. "What I do matters, but I am not… — Sylvia Boorstein Beyond my control Copy Share Image
When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion… — Sylvia Boorstein Answers Copy Share Image
“Hatred will never cease by hatred, Only love will erase hatred, This is the eternal law.” — Sylvia Boorstein Love Copy Share Image
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose… — Sylvia Boorstein Attention Copy Share Image
“Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen… — Sylvia Boorstein Contemplation Copy Share Image
I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted… — Sylvia Boorstein Brokenhearted Copy Share Image
“... change and loss and sadness and grief are the shared lot of all human beings ... we are all making our… — Sylvia Boorstein Change Copy Share Image
“I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation… — Sylvia Boorstein Life Copy Share Image
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. — Sylvia Boorstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience… — Sylvia Boorstein Pain Copy Share Image
“Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.” — Sylvia Boorstein Book Copy Share Image
All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each… — Sylvia Boorstein Death Copy Share Image
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being… — Sylvia Boorstein Alive Copy Share Image
