“The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.”
― Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
― Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
“One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not worship Buddha as a god or deity, but instead celebrates the Buddha as an example of a normal person like you and me who applied a good deal of discipline and gentleness to his meditation practice, and ended up opening his mind and heart in a very big way.”
― The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .: A Guide to Life for a New Generation
― The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .: A Guide to Life for a New Generation
“That is the purpose of meditation practice: to become more present and aware of every aspect of our life.”
― The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
― The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
“If you can smile in the face of uncertainty, you are well trained.”
― The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
― The Buddha Walks into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation
“the Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that Freud was later to codify and develop.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
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