Quotes by Charlotte Joko Beck

“Awareness is our true self; its what we are. So we dont have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our ju...”

“103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because ...”

“When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.”

“When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that dis...”

“If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as Im a good person for doing this or Isnt it wonderful, tha...”

“When we seek from Zen (or from any spiritual path) the fulfillment of our fantasies, we separate from the earth and sky, from our loved ones, from our aching backs and hearts, from the very soles o...”

“Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.”

“Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.”

“Who knows how you should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.”

“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our ...”