Ira Rechtshaffer

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“Meditation is an expression of tender courage. It suggests that it is refreshing to meet the nakedness of situations with your own nakedness, here and now. Outside of nowness we fail to genuinely appreciate our lives because we are struggling to survive in time, projecting ourselves into the future or attempting to resolve the past.”
Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred

“Art in everyday life is the deepening or intensifying of experience that gives new significance to the ordinary things of our world. It is feeling the breath of life pulsating in and through the ordinary events and activities of our everyday world. We might regain a childlike sensitivity to the immediate freshness of this moment. Here we are unashamedly more fully alive, already enjoying an abundant life which can no longer be exhausted.”
Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred

“Even Real Men Need Loving Kindness”
Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred

“Let us not think that because we are less brutal, less violent, less inhuman than our opponents we will carry the day. Brutality, violence and inhumanity have an immense prestige that schoolbooks hide from children, that grown men do not admit, but that everybody bows before. For the opposite virtues to have as much prestige, they must be actively and constantly put into practice. Anyone who is merely incapable of being as brutal, as violent and as inhuman as someone else but who does not practice the opposite virtues, is inferior to that person in both inner strength and prestige, and he will not hold out in such a confrontation.”1

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“Meditation is an expression of tender courage. It suggests that it is refreshing to meet the nakedness of situations with your own nakedness, here and now. Outside of nowness we fail to genuinely appreciate our lives because we are struggling to survive in time, projecting ourselves into the future or attempting to resolve the past.”
Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred

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