Paradise in Plain Sight Quotes

“Now is the only cure for then.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“This mind is an amazing thing. It can conjure love from the scent of orange blossoms, peace from a dry breeze, and joy from a patch of grass on a summer day.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It’s faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“You can’t fill a hole that doesn’t exist.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to be ready, even desperate, before you propel yourself beyond your own fear.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“It’s not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It’s not so bad.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“Nostalgia seems like a harmless pastime until it renders you blind.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“You’re putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

“When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden