Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over Quotes

“Suffering is waiting. Equanimity is optional. Presence is the path.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“People talk about practice like it’s just a matter of willpower. If you really cared, you’d sit. If you really understood impermanence, you wouldn’t skip.
That’s bullshit.
Willpower burns out. Discipline gets interrupted. Even the best of intentions get buried under work stress, family obligations, grief, exhaustion, or just inertia.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“If your meditation schedule becomes another way to feel like a disappointment, it’s no longer a practice — it’s a punishment.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“One of the great myths of meditation practice is that once it’s established, it becomes self-sustaining.
That’s rarely true.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“If you believe your practice only “counts” when you’re sitting with your eyes closed, you’re missing 90% of the path.
Your cushion is your lab.
Your life is the field.
That’s where real practice happens.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“We live in a world obsessed with transformation stories.
Before and after photos. Morning routine YouTube videos. Productivity hacks. #monkmode posts on social media.
But those are curated realities. Not practices.
Real-life wins are quiet. Private. Ordinary.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“Live every day as someone who remembers what you saw on that cushion — that everything changes, that craving creates misery, that you have the capacity to respond with awareness instead of reaction.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“Practice is not a measurement of your worth. It’s a commitment to stay aligned with truth.
That’s why we don’t chase perfection. We chase presence.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“Vipassanā isn’t about feeling something — it’s about doing something, over and over again.
And like any form of training — physical, mental, or spiritual — there is no shortcut. You can’t bypass the work. You can’t meditate your way around impermanence. You can only meet it — again and again — with awareness and equanimity.”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over

“Sitting daily sounds simple. But in real life — with real demands, distractions, and inner resistance — it's hard. Not because the technique is flawed, but because we were never trained to build a life around it,”
― G. Scott Graham, Now what? After Your Vipassana Course Is Over