Phillip Moffitt > Quotes

“A deep acceptance of life “just as it is” allows you to be more fully present in your life moment by moment, no matter how difficult or how sweet it is, and it empowers you to act more from your deepest values. Regardless of the circumstances of your life at any given time, your experience is richer, more alive.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“Surround yourself with reminders of what you are doing, such as objects or photographs of places or persons that symbolize your desired change.”
― Phillip Moffitt

“When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.”
― Phillip Moffitt

“Life’s difficulties aren’t the cause of most suffering; rather, it’s a lack of being connected to self, to others, and to life as a whole that leads to suffering. Separation from your natural enthusiasm dampens or kills your spirit. Therefore the question in contemplating change is always: “Am I moving more fully into my essence and into being my most authentic self?” In”
― Phillip Moffitt, Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind

“You may discover that what you are doing in the name of feeling good is a way to distract yourself from a strong emotion that you are reluctant to be with.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“In Buddhist psychology identifying with and clinging to desire are said to result in your “taking birth.” In other words, you have created an illusory self whose happiness and well-being depend on getting what it wants.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“relinquishing, leaving, and renouncing of it....”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“It is a teaching in how to live wisely.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“Second Insight
This Noble Truth must be penetrated to by fully understanding suffering ...
Third Insight
This Noble Truth has been penetrated to by fully understanding suffering ...
SECOND NOBLE TRUTH
What is the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering?
Fourth Insight
It is craving ... accompanied by relish and lust, relishing this and that ...
craving for sensual desires, craving for”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

“When this state of selfless gratitude starts to blossom, your mind becomes more spacious and quiet, and your heart receives its first taste of release from fear and wanting.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind

“FIRST NOBLE TRUTH
What is the Noble Truth of Suffering? Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, and death is suffering. Disassociation from the loved is suffering, not to get what one wants is suffering ...
First Insight
There is this Noble Truth of Suffering: Such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing, and light that arose in me about things not heard before.”
― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering