Quotes From Classes

“As a species we’re still struggling to find a middle way, to steer a wise course through the extremes of fanaticism, greed, nihilism, rage, and despair. The ancient wisdom of the eightfold path offers eight matrixes that are powerfully relevant today as a guide to help us navigate these extremes and bring a meaningful direction to our daily lives, actions, and relationships. All elements of the eightfold path inter-are...All eight elements are interrelated and interdependent. They enhance each other. When practiced deeply, each element of the path contains the other seven within it, and they complement each other to create a complete path to liberation.”

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
The one who has flung herself out of the grass,
The one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
Who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
Who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
Which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”