Quotes From Classes
The right words, shared at the right moment and in the right way, can open doorways to deepen our experience in the practice. May these words be of benefit!
Week of February 9, 2026
“Joy is a meeting place, of deep intentionality and of self-forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in communion with what formerly seemed outside...The sheer intoxicating beauty of the world inhabited as an edge between what we previously thought was us and what we thought was radically other than us. Joy may be made by hard-won, practiced achievement as much as by an unlooked-for, passing act of grace arrived out of nowhere...To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow ourselves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious, worried self,...the vulnerability of happiness and the vulnerability of its imminent loss, felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source: the claiming of our place in the living conversation...I was here, and you were here, and together we made a world.”