Secret History

Per request, here's the quote I read to the group from Jack Kornfield's book The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace:

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."  -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Upcoming Schedule

Here's the schedule of facilitators coming up for this group:

August 20: Walt Opie

August 27: Walt Opie

September 3: Kevin Griffin

September 10: Jeff Lindemood
September 17: Walt Opie

We meet every Tuesday from 7:30 - 9 pm at the Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA) in Room #1 upstairs.

Humility Quote from Noah Levine

Per request, here's a quote on humility from Noah Levine's book The Heart of the Revolution (pg. 96) that I read at the Berkeley group recently:

 

"Humility is at the core of the path of love. The more loving and wise we become, the more the ego will want to lay claim to the experiences of wisdom. Humility is not a state of egolessness; it is a wise relationship to the ego. Humility does not mean that conceit doesn't arise in the mind; it means that conceit is met with the wisdom of not taking the inflation personally. Usually when we are feeling inflated or conceited, we believe the ego's insistence that we are better or worse than others. Humility is a practice that allows us to override that insistence and arrive at a wise relationship to the ego. It takes constant vigilance, because the mind is constantly creating (and attempting to give permanence to) a self out of that aspect of our experience that we call ego, constantly creating conceit."