Kai Windle

“But after years of practice I’ve come to feel grateful when I observe these unskillful patterns arise, because now I would rather see them than not see them. It becomes another chance to unhook from these patterns, to see their essential transparency, and to let go of the burden they bring.”
― Joseph Goldstein, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism

“When we see deeply that all that is subject to arising is also subject to cessation, that whatever arises will also pass away, the mind becomes disenchanted. Becoming disenchanted, one becomes dispassionate. And through dispassion, the mind is liberated.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“In meditation practice, we build the energy of awareness until it grows powerful enough to see entirely different levels of reality.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

“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