86 Quotes by Joseph Goldstein

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a great Dzogchen master of the last century, taught, “There is one thing we always need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness, the guard who is on the lookout for when we get carried away in mindlessness.

And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.

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.

Through mindful attention in the moment, we see the impermanent nature of phenomena and understand the happiness of nongrasping.

Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs.

Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.4.

Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.

On a boat in the middle of a great storm, one wise, calm person can bring everyone to safety. The.