When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of observing one's emotions without acting on them impulsively.
Maxine Hong Kingston suggests that instead of reacting to our feelings immediately, we should observe them as they come and go, akin to the transient beauty of cherry blossoms. This perspective encourages mindfulness and patience, allowing us to acknowledge our emotions without letting them dictate our actions.
Themes
EmotionsMindfulnessObservationActionFeelings
In practice
Example use cases
During a meditation seminar, this quote can be shared to help participants understand the need for emotional regulation.
More from Maxine Hong Kingston
All quotes βThere can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong KingstonRead
Similar quotes
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinRead
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
DogenRead
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.
Elizabeth GilbertRead
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
Hermann HesseRead