At Home in the Muddy Water Quotes

“Our core beliefs need to be seen for what they are: deeply held assumptions about reality that our particular life circumstances have conditioned us to accept as absolute truth.”
― Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos

“Attachment is always a barrier to real appreciation and happiness, because it’s based on the illusion that some external element can make our core pain go away. But when we’re willing to expose ourselves to the pain we’ve been avoiding, the power of attachment fades and the path to a genuine life becomes more accessible.”
― Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos

“To avoid experiencing the anxious quiver at the core of our being, where we might feel the chaos of uncertainty or the pain of unhealed wounds, we weave a protective cocoon of beliefs and identities.”
― Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos

“Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies.”
― Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos

“To know that we don’t know, yet to keep practicing, is the way we learn to go deeper.”
― Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos