Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

- Sylvia Boorstein

I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in car…

- Sylvia Boorstein

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

- Sylvia Boorstein

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the peopl…

- Sylvia Boorstein

What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that…

- Sylvia Boorstein

Being silent for me doesn't require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, "receiving in a balanced, noncombative way …

- Sylvia Boorstein

Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneousl…

- Sylvia Boorstein

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

- Sylvia Boorstein

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be …

- Sylvia Boorstein