Choosing Compassion Quotes

“our human suffering. It comes from believing our mind and not challenging our ideas and assumptions. A powerful spiritual practice is to pause and stop believing our mind for a while. If we can remember to do this, it can actually change us. It can transform our consciousness.”
― Anam Thubten, Choosing Compassion: How to Be of Benefit in a World That Needs Our Love

“There is a verse in the Dhammapada that says, “With thoughts we create the world.” This verse tells us how powerful our thoughts can be. We basically create our sense of reality, our sense of the world, with our own thoughts and our own minds. Happiness and suffering, good and bad, right”
― Anam Thubten, Choosing Compassion: How to Be of Benefit in a World That Needs Our Love

“Of course, it is good to have deep sleep because then we feel rejuvenated, we can think carefully. But maybe we love deep sleep because we feel, 'Finally everybody left me alone last night. The whole world left me alone, right?' It feels that way.”
― Anam Thubten, Choosing Compassion: How to Be of Benefit in a World That Needs Our Love