Frightened Away Quotes by Joan Halifax

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Joan Halifax has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do…
• May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.
• Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward…
• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.…
• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury;…
• All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.
• We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
• In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can…
• Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.
• When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease…
• Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
• Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way…

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