Cease Quote by Joan Halifax Download Open image “Cease consuming, practice generosity.” — Joan Halifax ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cease Consuming Generosity Practice
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. — Laura Joh Rowland Copy Share Image
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said:… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image