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Let yourself follow this impulse toward love whenever you feel it. This very moment, your heart is turning toward certain people, places, and experiences the way a flower turns toward the sun. It wants you to reach out and connect: write an email, offer help, give someone a moment of your attention. So do it.

– Demolish Your Definition Of Self And Other Wisdom From Martha Beck

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Experience Reality Directly

Meditation is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. It lifts the fog of our ordinary lives to reveal what is hidden; it loosens the knot of self-centeredness and opens the heart; it moves us beyond mere concepts to allow for a direct experience of reality.

– Lama Surya Das, “The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation”

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Seeing Guilt for What It Is

Guilt, in Buddhist psychology, is defined as a kind of self-hatred. It is another form of anger. If we are motivated by guilt at what we feel, it will drain all of our energy; it does not give us the strength to reach out to help others. We ourselves take center stage when we are in the state of guilt.

– Sharon Salzberg, “A Quiver of the Heart “

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Waking up to Racism

Waking up to Racism
I am often asked when talking about racism in Buddhist circles to be specific, give examples. In part, this longing emerges from the reluctance of white people in power to accept, and see clearly by opening their eyes, that white supremacy informs the shaping of Buddhist communities, individual interactions, publications, etc. That reluctance can only be transformed in spiritual practice, not by proof. There is never enough proof.

– bell hooks, “Waking up to Racism “

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Being In Touch

You cannot achieve enlightenment by locking yourself in your room. Transformation is possible only when you are in touch.

– Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Fertile Soil of Sangha”

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Things As They Are

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

– Adyashanti, “Bliss is a By-Product”

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The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

– Martha Beck

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“The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of Bodhicitta,
together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking.”

– Patrul Rinpoche, from “The Words of My Perfect Teacher”

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The Natural Order of Things

While we live, we are able to live. When it’s time to die, we are able to die. This is the natural order of things, and to the extent that we align ourselves with this, we experience peace even in the midst of distress.

– Meikyo Robert Rosenbaum, “Breathless”

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Today, if you’re confronting an issue for the ten thousandth time, or feeling that your life is going nowhere, or panicking over how little you’ve achieved, stop and breathe. You’re not falling behind on some linear race through time. You’re walking the labyrinth of life.

– MB- The Labyrinth of Life

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