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“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“We can then see for ourselves the obvious truth that when we cling or hold on to that which changes, we suffer.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.”
― Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom