56 Quotes by Joko Beck

Meditation is not about doing something

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.