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Top 30 Joko Beck Quotes (2025 Update)

Joko Beck Quote: “We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.”

1. “We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.”

Joko Beck Quote: “None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.”

2. “None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.”

Joko Beck Quote: “All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That’s all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.”

3. “All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That’s all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.”

Joko Beck Quote: “In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.”

4. “In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.”

Joko Beck Quote: “With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.”

5. “With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We are just living this moment; we don’t have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That’s why I say you might as well practice with each moment.”

6. “We are just living this moment; we don’t have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That’s why I say you might as well practice with each moment.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.”

7. “Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.”

8. “We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Life is a second-by-second miracle.”

9. “Life is a second-by-second miracle.”

Joko Beck Quote: “There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.”

10. “There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.”

11. “Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.”

Joko Beck Quote: “You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.”

12. “You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.”

13. “We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.”

Joko Beck Quote: “It’s of no use to look back and say, “I should have been different.” At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we’re able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.”

14. “It’s of no use to look back and say, “I should have been different.” At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we’re able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life...”

15. “We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life...”

Joko Beck Quote: “If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.”

16. “If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.”

Joko Beck Quote: “To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.”

17. “To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

18. “We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”

19. “Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don’t want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.”

20. “Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don’t want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”

21. “We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”

Joko Beck Quote: “There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.”

22. “There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.”

23. “Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.”

24. “Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.”

25. “Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.”

Joko Beck Quote: “But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future – ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

26. “But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future – ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

Joko Beck Quote: “Meditation is not about doing something.”

27. “Meditation is not about doing something.”

Joko Beck Quote: “To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won’t keep on that way.”

28. “To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won’t keep on that way.”

Joko Beck Quote: “There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our ’if onlies.”

29. “There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our ’if onlies.”

Joko Beck Quote: “An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.”

30. “An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.”

Joko Beck Quote: “How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don’t know. We can’t know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it’s there.”

31. “How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don’t know. We can’t know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it’s there.”

Joko Beck Quote: “We’re constantly waking up to what we’re about, what we’re really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that’s painful. But there’s no possibility of freedom without this pain.”

32. “We’re constantly waking up to what we’re about, what we’re really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that’s painful. But there’s no possibility of freedom without this pain.”

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