These slides contain excerpts of some of my favorite quotes from wisdom teachers who bring mindfulness and self compassion together.

1. MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION
In gratitude for the great wisdom available to us all
Susan Penn/Founder/ReInventure Consulting

2. Out beyond ideas of
wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that
grass, the world is too full to
talk about.
Rumi

3. “You are the sky.
Everything else is just
weather.”
Pema Chodrun

4. :
“The only reason we don’t
open our hearts and minds to
other people is that they
trigger confusion in us that we
don’t feel brave enough or
sane enough to deal with. To
the degree that we look clearly
and compassionately at
ourselves, we feel confident
and fearless about looking
into someone else’s eyes.”
Pema Chodrun

5. “The most fundamental
aggression is to ourselves,
the most fundamental harm
we can do to ourselves is to
remain ignorant by not
having the courage and the
respect to look at ourselves
honestly and gently.”
Pema Chodrun

6. “My mind is a neighborhood. I
try not to go in it alone.”
Anne LaMott

7. “But you can’t get into any of
these truths by sitting in a
field beautifically, avoiding
your anger and damage and
grief. Your anger, and damage
and grief are the way to the
truth. We don’t have much
truth unless we have gone into
these rooms and closets and
woods and abysses that we
were told not to go into. When
we have gone in and looked
around for a while, just
breathing and finally taking
in, then we will be able to
speak in our own voice and
stay in the present moment.
And that moment is home.”
Anne LaMott

8. “I do not understand the
mystery of grace- only that it
meets us where we are and
doesn’t leave us where it found
us.”
Anne LaMott

9. “ A quiet mind is all you need.
All else will happen rightly,
once your mind is quiet. As
the sun on rising makes the
world active, so does self-
awareness affect changes in
the mind. In the light of calm
and steady self-awareness,
inner energies wake up and
work miracles without any
effort on your part.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

10. No Water, No Moon
In this way and that I tried to
save the old pail
Since the bamboo strip was
weakening and about to break
Until at last the bottom fell out
No more water in the pail!
No more moon in the water!
101 Zen Stories

11.
“In the end, just three things
matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to
let go”
― Jack Kornfield