Jesper

“Rather than trying to paper over our suffering with comforting beliefs, this approach is about actually exploring directly what seems to be in the way of freedom, peace and happiness, what seems scary, dreadful and unbearable. It's one thing to believe that the tiger chasing you is only a mirage, and it's another thing entirely to actually turn around and embrace the tiger and find out for sure.”
― Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

“If the bodhisattvas live during a time of armed conflict,
they give rise to the mind of compassion,
transforming those who are fighting,
and causing them to dwell in a land without contention.
If there are great wars,
the bodhisattvas make the strength on both sides equal.
They manifest their spiritual authority
and subdue people so that peace is restored.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Bodhisattva Path: Commentary on the Vimalakirti and Ugrapariprccha Sutras

“Longing to stop, thinking we 'should' stop, trying to stop, and this whole conflict between the desire to stop and the desire to indulge--all of it is part of the addiction (and is different from actually stopping).”
― Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

“If we establish that what we do to animals is an issue of ethics, that means that we then need an ethical justification to condone what we do to them. And the fundamental point of this book is to show that no such justification exists.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater