Black and Buddhist Quotes

“Lack of courage is the greatest impediment to happiness.”
― Cheryl A. Giles, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“The First Noble Truth invites us to welcome our wounds and meet our suffering with courage and compassion”
― Cheryl A. Giles, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“Daisaku Ikeda: “Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.”
― Cheryl A. Giles, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“There's the potentiality for other choices to be made in how we relate to discomfort. When there is space around the difficulty, we have agency.”
― Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“We are enslaved by habits of our unexamined mind.”
― Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom