In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

- Joko Beck

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some …

- Joko Beck

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our …

- Joko Beck

There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what …

- Joko Beck

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

- Joko Beck

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

- Joko Beck

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

- Joko Beck

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

- Joko Beck

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

- Joko Beck