“When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness.”
JG
“When we look back at our experience, we can see so clearly its ephemeral, dreamlike nature. Yet when we look ahead, when we look to the future, somehow (and this is the great enchantment) we get dazzl...”
Joseph Goldstein
“The more we can be with our own difficulty, our own pain, the easier it is to be with the pain and difficulties of others.”
Joseph Goldstein
“Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”
Joseph Goldstein