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From Quotes by Sylvia Boorstein
- 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…
- Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously,…
- If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is…
- The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different…
- Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition…
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