Cheri Huber (born c. 1944) is an American meditation teacher in the Sōtō School of Zen Buddhism tradition.
Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.
Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it. )
Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.
We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.
The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.
When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.
Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.
If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.