"I believe that women and girls today have……" — Joan Halifax
"I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings."
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Joan Halifax
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28 Quotes by Joan Halifax
Joan Halifax has 28 quotes on this site.
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they…
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May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.
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Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps…
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
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We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not…
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All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately…
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We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
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In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And…
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.
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When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be…
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Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
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Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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