The Book of Householder Koans Quotes

“Doesn’t making a salad reveal the world? Look at the purple onion you are slicing, or a single leaf of spinach. Contemplate the labors and laborers that have brought it to your kitchen; the sun, rain, and earth; and the life and death of the living plants that gave you these vegetables.”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“Look at the purple onion you are slicing, or a single leaf of spinach. Contemplate the labors and laborers that have brought it to your kitchen; the sun, rain, and earth; and the life and death of the living plants that gave you these vegetables.”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“My life only happens because of your lives,”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“Worrying about living isn’t living; living is living. Watching the latest earthquake tragedy on TV is watching”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“No one is a fixed quantity, so your opinion can’t be fixed, either.”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“the essence of who we are is relational, co-arising with everything else in the world. It’s not that nothing exists— we certainly have personality traits and a distinctive approach to life—but those characteristics are fluid and dynamic, not to be pinpointed and nailed down.”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“It doesn’t matter what she says, I’m forgiving her even as she speaks. I’m just letting it go. It’s only my ego getting hurt, so it doesn’t matter.”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments