Jan Frazier Quotes

#1. If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.

Jan Frazier

#2. There is a presence within you
that has never suffered.
It lives in joy that has no cause.
It is who you most deeply are.

Jan Frazier

#3. There are many kinds of knowledge, only one of them worth everything, only one of them not subject to opinion or degree or damage. If you come to that, you will know what I mean. If you don't, listen to someone who has.

Jan Frazier

#4. Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

Jan Frazier

#5. Being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.

Jan Frazier