Quotes by : Steve Hagen

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see....

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with....

[W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing....

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop,....

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.