"When we walk slowly, the world can fully……" — Joan Halifax
"When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty"
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28 Quotes by Joan Halifax
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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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