Swaroop

“Whatever has the nature to arise has the nature to cease.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“An interviewer once asked Mother Teresa what she says to God when she prays. “I don’t say anything,” she replied. “I just listen.” Then the interviewer asked her what God says to her. “He doesn’t say anything,” said Mother Teresa. “He just listens. And if you don’t understand that, I can’t explain it to you.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“Better than one hundred years lived without seeing the arising and passing of things / Is one day lived seeing their arising and passing.”2 What does this say about what we value and work for in our lives, and about the liberating effect of seeing directly, in the moment, the truth of change?”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World