"Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our……" — Joko Beck
"Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life."
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29 Quotes by Joko Beck
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Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply…
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If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you…
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We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one.…
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Life is a second-by-second miracle.
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