Rockwell: Can you please complete the following sentence for me? “Meditative awareness has changed my life in the following way…”
Charlotte Joko Beck: “‘It has changed my life in the direction of it being more harmonious, more satisfactory, more joyful and more useful probably.’ Though I don’t think much in those terms. I don’t wake up in the morning thinking I’m going to be useful. I really think about what I’m going to have for breakfast.”
Joseph Goldstein: “…I’ve become more aware of the nature of my mind — how it creates suffering and how it can be free.”
Sylvia Boorstein: “It changed me from being afraid of being in a life to celebrating it.”
Sharon Salzberg: “…it has changed my view of who I am.”