• It feels to me like we're in such a privileged time in terms of the availability of the dharma and the availability of practice. We never know when conditions might change.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Time - Meditation - Change Quotes
  
• There are many ways in which we cling: attachment or reaction or judgment or aversion or whatever.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Attachment - Judgment - Reaction Quotes
• For most of us, the state we're in most of the time is distraction.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Time - Distraction Quotes
• We need to distinguish the natural state of awareness from what is perhaps our more normal state of distraction.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Nature - Awareness - Distraction Quotes
• I like the image of the mind as a mirror. The mirror has the capacity to reflect precisely whatever comes before it without any discrimination.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Reflection - Discrimination - Precise Quotes
• I genuinely feel that I know a lot less now than I did twenty years ago. It feels wonderful! It feels like a letting go of mental constructs.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Genuine - Wonderful - Knowledgeable Quotes
• Until we're fully enlightened, there's ignorance in the mind. So of necessity a view is going to be skewed.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Enlightened - Necessary Quotes
• It's not the right effort to gain something. It really is the right effort to break the habit of our identification and fixation, which is very very strong.
  Joseph Goldstein Quote - Awareness - Habit - Strong Quotes
  

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