Shinzen Young famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Suffering = Pain x Resistance
-- Shinzen Young

#Strength #Pain #Work Out
The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.
-- Shinzen Young

#Pain #Unconditional Love #Expression
As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.
-- Shinzen Young

#Long
I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make problemsÂ». They're caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make solutionsÂ» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.
-- Shinzen Young

#Thinking #People #Suffering
Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim
-- Shinzen Young

#Independent #Meditation #Claims
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.
-- Shinzen Young

#Business #Pain #Compassion
If you can't be disciplined, be clever.
-- Shinzen Young

#Clever #Ifs
Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake
-- Shinzen Young

#Mistake #Enlightenment #Today

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.
I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

Shinzen Young famous quotes

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