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Sylvia Boorstein

"It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves."

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.84, Ballantine Books

Sylvia Boorstein

#Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.”
“I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."”

Source : "Roger Ballen and The Making of The Room". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2013.
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.”
“To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.”
“History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.”
“Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.”
“Never run in the rain with your socks on.”
“I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.”

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