“ ...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47) ”
Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)
~ Donald Rothberg
To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)
Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)
ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)
