The great discovery in our practice is that, on one level, birth and death, existence and nonexistence, self and other are the great defining themes of our lives. And on another level, it’s all just a dance of insubstantial appearances, what the Buddha called “the magic show of consciousness.”

Joseph Goldstein

from the book Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

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Further quotes from the book Mindfulness:

• Becoming disenchanted
• Nothing is exempt from change
• Without the steadiness of concentration
• Like listening to someone playing a flute
• There is no self who is running the show