Christina

“Most of us don’t know what it actually feels like to be alive. We know about our problems, our desires, our goals and accomplishments, but we don’t know much about our lives. It generally takes a huge event, the equivalent of a birth or a death, to wake up our sense of living this moment we are given—this moment that is just for the time being, because it passes even as it arrives.”
― Leonard Scheff, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

“to live is to embrace each moment as if it were the first, last, and all moments of time.”
― Leonard Scheff, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

“Your most powerful tool in some situations may be what Thich Nhat Hanh calls “compassionate listening.” “Sit quietly and listen with only one purpose: to allow the other person to express himself and find relief from his suffering.”
― Leonard Scheff, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

“you revile us who do not revile in return, you scold us who do not scold in return, you abuse us who do not abuse in return. So we do not accept it from you and hence it remains with you, it belongs to you,”
― Leonard Scheff, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger