"The ideal of how we should be is the most poisonous thing in the whole world.”

"The thing that erodes self-centeredness - the mischief in our life - is the open experiencing of our life at the moment."

"The intelligent suffering of experiencing seems horrible from the usual self-centered point of view of most people."

"Practice is not thinking about our life; it is bodily feeling the totality of life."

"A good practice is absolutely simple."

      Charlotte Joko Beck / Elihu Genmyo Smith