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 17

A note this week: the longer passage of Pema Chodron’s that I also read in class is from her book, Start Where You Are.

Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down where you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be,
Not the saint you are striving to become,
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You are already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out,
Touch in,
Let go.
— John Welwood, "Forget About Enlightenment"