Quotes by Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein

All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future–a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life–is gone. [p. 149]

Falling In Love

Important Relationships

Loss

Being silent for me doesn’t require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, “receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening.” With or without words, the hope of my heart is that it will be able to relax and acknowledge the truth of my situation with compassion.

Compassion

Heart

Mean

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

Compassion

Two

Wings

Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato’s insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.

Dedication

Meditation

Practice

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.

Balance

Confusion

Mind

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

Dedication

Moral

Pain

Heir to your own karma doesn’t mean ‘You get what you deserve.’ I think it means ‘You get what you get.’ Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion–for myself as well as for everyone else–rather than contention. [p.61]

Karma

Mean

Thinking

His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.

Healing

Peace

Thinking

I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.

Bed

Needs

Regret

I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing–being mindful of–my capacity for feeling caring concern. … when I feel myself in caring connection–encouraging, consoling, or appreciating–I feel the twin pleasures of clarity and goodness. It doesn’t matter if the connection I feel is to myself or a person I know or people I don’t know or even the whole world. The lively impulse of caring is what counts. [p. 20]

Caring

Confused

People

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Acceptance

Affliction

Appreciation

Balance

Bed

Behavior

Brother

Buddhism

Buddhist

Caring

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Clear

Compassion

Complicated

Confused

Confusion

Dedication

Demand

Determine

Different

Difficult Times

Discovery

Drama

Fall

Falling In Love

Father

Feelings

Grace

Gratitude

Healing

Heart

Helpful

Honesty

Hurt

Ideas

Important

Important Relationships

Karma

Kindness

Knowing

Levels

Life Changing

Life Is

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Looks

Loss

May

Mean

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Quotes by Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein

All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future–a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life–is gone. [p. 149]

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato’s insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.

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