Top 41 Joseph L. Goldstein Quotes

#1. It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free.

Joseph Goldstein

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#2. Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful ... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.

Nesta Helen Webster

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#3. Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Francis Bacon

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#4. Mindfulness practice begins to open up everything. We open our mind to memories, to emotions, to different sensations in the body. In meditation this happens in a very organic way, because we are not searching, we are not pulling or probing, we are just sitting and watching.

Joseph Goldstein

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#5. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.

Joseph Goldstein

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#6. Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love.

Joseph Goldstein

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#7. A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct.

Joseph Goldstein

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#8. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Joseph Goldstein

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#9. Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

Joseph Goldstein

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#10. Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

Joseph Goldstein

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#11. I may have said the same thing before ... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Oscar Wilde

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#12. Faking a smile is easier than explaining whay you are sad

Anonymous

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#13. My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated ... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Patti Smith

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#14. Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives.

Joseph Goldstein

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#15. And one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.

Joseph Goldstein

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#16. I can be very loud, when I'm being stupid.

Scott Lynch

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#17. The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.

Joseph Goldstein

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#18. Better than one hundred years lived without seeing the arising and passing of things / Is one day lived seeing their arising and passing.2 What does this say about what we value and work for in our lives, and about the liberating effect of seeing directly, in the moment, the truth of change?

Joseph Goldstein

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#19. The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

Gary Cooper

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#20. If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

Nellie Fox

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#21. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with an impure mind, suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Joseph Goldstein

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#22. Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.

Joseph Goldstein

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#23. this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

Joseph Goldstein

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#24. Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robinson Jeffers

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#25. Millions of people who falsely believe that "knowledge is power." It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Anonymous

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#26. When we have too much faith, we can become dogmatic, attached to our own views. And we can see all too often how this blind belief leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world.

Joseph Goldstein

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#27. The world is like that boat, tossed by the storms of greed and hatred and fear.

Joseph Goldstein

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#28. My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.

Sam Harris

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#29. In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning.

Joseph Goldstein

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#30. If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

Joseph Goldstein

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#31. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.

Joseph Goldstein

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#32. We do not know when any seed will come to fruition. We can experience the karmic results of our actions in this lifetime, in the next life, or at any time in the future. But our present actions influence which karmic seeds have the opportunity to come to fruition.

Joseph Goldstein

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#33. As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame.

Joseph Goldstein

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#34. Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.

Joseph Goldstein

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#35. When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness.

Joseph Goldstein

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#36. When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

Charlie Cox

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#37. All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

Elie Wiesel

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#38. All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.

Joseph Goldstein

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#39. We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity.

Joseph Goldstein

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#40. Savour life's pleasures in abundance

Ginger Sullivan

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#41. So it is very helpful to begin to recognize this comparing mind, this conceit of "I'm better than" or "I'm worse than" someone else. When we do not see it clearly, it becomes the source of much suffering. It makes us feel separated and apart from others; we reinforce the contraction of self.

Joseph Goldstein

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