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Life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].
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My redeemer is always the person next to me.
— Sylvia Boorstein
May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.
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Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Sometimes I think the only thing worth saying is I love you.
— Sylvia Boorstein
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
— Sylvia Boorstein
When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.
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I would not ask you to do this practice, to undertake this path of liberation from the habits of suffering mind, unless it were a feasible path.
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Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.
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Life is easier without imperatives.
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The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]
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I'd say, "But I'm not happy." And she'd say, "Where is it written that you're supposed to be happy all the time?
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The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
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I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I need.' Maybe they are the same. [p. 14]
— Sylvia Boorstein
Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.
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Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].
— Sylvia Boorstein
May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.
— Sylvia Boorstein
The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.
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He did not confuse compassion with passivity.
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Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime of homes. [p. 58]
— Sylvia Boorstein
Don't just do something, sit there!
— Sylvia Boorstein
Life is painful, suffering is optional.
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We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.
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Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.
— Sylvia Boorstein
If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.
— Sylvia Boorstein
You are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]
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Perhaps ... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.
— Sylvia Boorstein
Knowing the truth brings happiness.
— Sylvia Boorstein
