Books Quote by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“The sudden death of oak trees in where I live in Oakland is like a clear cry naturally emerging from nature, just as cries…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“What happens to a hurt people? We forget that we are butterflies bearing up in the wild winds. We forget that we are tender…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“I still experience this chill today when a song or chant touches some place inside my body that my mind cannot name... Harmony, like…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:8).”

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“When we say 'living without anything our hearts,' we do not mean emptiness in the sense of zero, but rather that the heart remains…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“...it was difficult for me to trust in the medicinal teaching that we must recognize friction and the not-so-good circumstances in life as being…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“When we fully know in our hearts who we are as living beings, not only emotionally, psychologically, politically, or socially, we can share a…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“The silence regarding race, sexuality, and gender in spiritual literature may create the illusion that all is well in our spiritual communities, or that…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“I find intimacy within and between all of us that is not sentimental or romantic. From one point of view this intimacy can be…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“...Identity arises spontaneously out of our bodies and minds, and spontaneously evolves in name, meaning, structure, and appearance. All of these spontaneously arising things…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“Our potent contemporary cultural sanctuaries shape the Dharma to fit our cultural traditions so that the mirroring needed for spiritual paths to work can…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“When I turned toward the hurt in the silence, I entered a kind of tenderness that was not sore, not wounded, but rather powerfully…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel