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Anthropologist

Joan Halifax is a renowned anthropologist born in 1942. Her research focuses on anthropology, religion, and psychology, offering profound insights into human culture and social structures.

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Famous Joan Halifax Quotes

“No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.”

Heart Answers Good Heart

Book:Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

“I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.”

Mind Heart I Can Reading My Own Compassion Subjects Paper Including Heart And Mind

Author:Joan Halifax

“Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.”

World Humans Heart Natural Capture Human Heart Natural World Wilder

Author:Joan Halifax

“Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.”

People Years Heart Helping Would Be Together Form Found Share Teaching Dying Insight Be Good Versions Verses Translations Wondrous Switzerland Facing Death

Author:Joan Halifax

“My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.”

Mind Heart Persons Doors Dying Tests Settling True Nature Veracity

Author:Joan Halifax

About the Author

Born: 1942
Known for: Anthropologist
Quotes: 54

Books & Sources

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of DeathRelated source material

The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal WisdomRelated source material

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