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Joan Halifax, PhD, is an American Zen Buddhist teacher and founder of the Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico. She is an author, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThis stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSome of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones. They have taught me, humbled me, purified me, and changed me.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAll beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility, and ultimately in unity.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEverybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not, we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWithin and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains, your authority returns to you.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageConceptual knowledge is so valued in our world. Yet in many cultures wisdom is equated not with knowledge but with an open heart.

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