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Way Quotes by Joko Beck
- We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think,…
- My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she…
- Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and…
- We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
- To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that…
- Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and…
- When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet…
- It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and…
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