Center for Mindfulness and Justice

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future, in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come to the present moment is to stop the war.”
Jack Kornfield

“The key is changing our habits and, in particular, the habits of our mind.”
Pema Chodron

“Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.”
Jim Abbott, one-armed pitcher in the major leagues who threw a no-hitter

“It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.”
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Can you accept the moments of anger and fear as guests, be willing to receive them with kindness without feeling obliged to serve them a five-course meal?”
Christina Feldman

“View the process of thinking itself as like a waterfall. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you may find a vantage point in a cave behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The practice of compassion means letting experience in. When we can open to all parts of ourselves and to others in the world, something quite extraordinary happens. We begin to connect with one another.”
Joseph Goldstein