Zen Heart Quotes

“The third phase—the phase of Being Kindness—has to do with learning to live from the awakened heart.”
― Ezra Bayda, Zen Heart: Simple Advice for Living with Mindfulness and Compassion

“The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with “me” and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.”
― Ezra Bayda, Zen Heart: Simple Advice for Living with Mindfulness and Compassion

“To “know thyself” has been a pivotal part of most spiritual traditions; here we will be considering it in depth in order to free ourselves from the self-centered drama of “me.”
― Ezra Bayda, Zen Heart: Simple Advice for Living with Mindfulness and Compassion

“The first phase—the Me Phase of practice—involves clarifying all the ways we’re run by the self-centered mind. It includes uncovering our most basic beliefs, observing our typical emotional reactions and patterns of behavior, and perhaps most important of all, becoming very familiar with our fears.”
― Ezra Bayda, Zen Heart: Simple Advice for Living with Mindfulness and Compassion