"Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life."

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Source : Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

Joan Halifax

#Practice Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes #Bones Quotes

“Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.”
“A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.”
“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.”
“I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.”
“Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.
“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”
“Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.”
“I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.”

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