Focus Quote by Bryant McGill

“Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you can do…

— L.M. Browning

“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.”

— Pema Chödrön

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

— Frederick Lenz

“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”

— Richard Rohr

“But gradually we learn something very precious under the tutelage of these wounds. We learn a compassion for others that replaces judging, self-loathing, and…

— Martin Laird

“There’s no doubt that meditation training has allowed some people to become essentially indifferent to what otherwise would have been unbearable pain.”

— Robert Wright

“accept the fact that wounds, some wounds, do not heal; that things, some things, don’t work out, and that not everyone is spared.”

— Claudia Serrano

“We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

— Leslie Jamison

“Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.”

— Darren Main

“If you're too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too.”

— Teju Cole

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”

— Bryant McGill

“it is the essence of morality to meditate on one’s own wrongdoing, to try to find ways to make up for it and to…

— Dan Kovalik