Sylvia Boorstein Quotes

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment,…
• Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.
• The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends…
• My redeemer is always the person next to me.
• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in…
• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.
• Life is painful, suffering is optional.
• The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
• All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when…
• I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing…
• The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.
• Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to…
• I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in…
• The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to…
• Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.
• If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama…
• 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 now. Importantly, this…
• Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.
• We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to…
• The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces…

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