How to Train a Wild Elephant Quotes

“When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Resting in this moment, we have no age.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Words: First practice leaving no traces. Then practice leaving things better than you found them.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“There is a Buddhist recitation for invoking compassion, and it highlights the role of listening in caring for others. “We shall practice listening so attentively that we are able to hear what the other is saying—and also what is left unsaid. We know that by listening deeply we already alleviate a great deal of pain and suffering in the other.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Good psychotherapists use absorptive listening. They are attuned to the subtle changes in tone or quality of voice that indicate something deeper than the words, even belying the words, a sticking place, hidden tears or anger, that needs to be explored.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness