Christina Feldman > Quotes

“Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly."

"We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.”
― Christina Feldman

“Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).”
― Christina Feldman

“There is an old Chinese saying, “Write your sorrows in sand and etch your joys in stone.”
― Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

“The birds have vanished into the sky,
And now the last cloud fades away.
We sit together, the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains.
LI PO”
― Christina Feldman, The Buddhist Path to Simplicity: Spiritual Practice in Everyday Life

“The path to the goal is portrayed in our fairy tales. We hear the ceaseless messages of the necessity of us being endlessly giving, beautiful, and selfless if we wish to find the fulfillment of our dreams, salvation. We learn through the absorption of our myths that desirability is synonymous with worthiness and goodness synonymous with acceptability.”
― Christina Feldman, Woman Awake: Women Practicing Buddhism

“Compassion is not a state or emotion but an understanding. It is an understanding rooted in the classroom of our lives and hearts and in genuine and honest relationship to pain and to suffering.”
― Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

“Our lives are enriched by generosity, forgiveness, and magnanimity. It is only when the cultivation of these virtues is motivated by the dream of salvation by someone else that these virtues become problematic.”
― Christina Feldman, Woman Awake: Women Practicing Buddhism

“perpetually positioning our “self” in relationship to other “selves”—”
― Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

“Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.”
― Christina Feldman, The Buddhist Path to Simplicity: Spiritual Practice in Everyday Life

“Silence is a refuge. There are times in our life when our world falls apart, when we are overwhelmed by the intensity of events, when we feel alienated, and when our life seems to make no sense. In those moments when we feel most adrift and confused, silence offers a sanctuary of renewal. In moments of confusion and complexity we are tempted to do more, to act, to find explanations, to speak. If we listen to our heart, we come to know the wisdom of being still. We calm the turmoil of our mind, feeling our feet on the earth, and connecting once more with a depth of inner silence that can guide us, heal us, and restore us.”
― Christina Feldman

“Rumi, the great Sufi poet, wrote: Today like every other day we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

“May I”
― Christina Feldman, Boundless Heart: The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity