Quotes by : Charlotte Joko Beck

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply....

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

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following....

When we seek from Zen (or from any spiritual path) the fulfillment of our fantasies, we separate from....

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

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy....

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and....

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,....