Norman Fischer Quotes

#1. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

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#2. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.

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#3. Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The

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#4. Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

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#5. A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

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#6. We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

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#7. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,

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#8. The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)

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#9. Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.

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#10. A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn't be that person. Why aren't you that person now? Because of these walls of self-protection you've built, these attitudes of limit and lack.

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