Kai Windle

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes

“An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

“Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed to me that liberation is both sudden and gradual, that there is no polarity between the two.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom