May 2013
4 posts
“Buddhanature and the natural state are not just made up of happy, sweet...”
– Pema Chödrön, “Meditating with Emotions”
“The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel...”
– Adyashanti, “Bliss is a By-Product”
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“Spiritual change is precisely a process that is bigger than you. You don’t...”
– Shozan Jack Haubner, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Enlightenment”
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“To open yourself up to need, longing, dependency, and reliance on others means...”
– Barry Magid, “No Gain”
April 2013
15 posts
“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude...”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Most of us find it very difficult to forgive individuals who have hurt us...”
– Matthew Flickstein, “Forgiveness”
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“You can’t go preventing pleasure and pain, you can’t keep the mind from labeling...”
– Upasika Kee Nanayon, “Tough Teachings To Ease The Mind”
“I beg you … to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,...”
– John Wesley.
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“It is very important to see your life not only from the narrow view of your...”
– Dainin Katagiri, “Time Revisited”
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“Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye
“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also...”
– Kristine Mann Library
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“The starting point is realizing that letting go is not a dramatic moment we...”
– Judy Lief, “Letting Go”
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“When you maintain the straightforward frankness of your own mind as it comes to...”
– Soko Morinaga Roshi, “One Chance, One Encounter”
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“Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away,...”
– S. N. Goenka, “Finding Sense in Sensation”
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“Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of the Matter”
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“Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of...”
– Ajahn Sumedho, “Noticing Space”
March 2013
4 posts
“When it’s time to suffer, you should suffer; when it’s time to cry, you should...”
– Seido Ray Ronci, “The Examined Life”
“When we meditate with the idea of getting rid of our emotions, we are actually...”
– Mark Epstein, “Shattering the Ridgepole”
“We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.”
– Joseph Goldstein, “Empty Phenomena Rolling On”
“We’re all prisoners of life and death. The question is: What kind of prisoners...”
– Bonnie Myotai Treace, “Rising to the Challenge: Filling the Well with Snow”
February 2013
8 posts
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with...”
– Toni Packer, “Unmasking the Self”
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“Every moment in life is absolute in itself. That’s all there is. There is...”
– Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention”
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“When we face the limitations of our power and control, all we can skillfully do...”
– Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”
“Experiences will come and go. Each experience has to be let go of, or the mind...”
– Letting Go of Spiritual Experience: Stop clinging to peak moments and open to true realization. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
“Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because...”
– Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, “Letting Go of Spiritual Experience”
“If hungry people come, give them food. If thirsty people come, give water. If...”
– Seung Sahn, “BOOM!”
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“Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the...”
– Sharon Salzberg, “Mindfulness and Difficult Emotions”
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“Our lives are meaningless if we take meaning for a coherent narrative plot of...”
– Lin Jensen, “Wash Your Bowl”
http://www.tricycle.com/insights/wash-your-bowl
January 2013
18 posts
3 tags
“History’s accelerating like technology’s accelerated. Can’t go...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “‘Letter to the Wall Street Journal,’ 1966
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“To be able to suffer with is good news because it means you can share power...”
– Joanna Macy, “Schooling Our Intention”
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“Life is a moment-by-moment adventure to be lived, not a story to be completed or...”
– Jeff Foster
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“When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to...”
– Jack Kornfield, “Set the Compass of Your Heart”
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“To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything...”
– Ayya Khema, “No Satisfaction”
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“Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It’s the...”
– Pema Chodron, “The In-between State”
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“To willingly reside in our distress, no longer resisting what is, is the real...”
– Ezra Bayda, “Bursting the Bubble of Fear”
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“The practice of maitri is deceptively simple. You repeat these four lines:
May...”
– Cyndi Lee, via Tricycle
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“The meditation orientation is not about fixing pain or making it better....”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, “At Home In Our Bodies”
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“How to inspire your brain
Take care of stress. Avoid dulling routine. Do...”
– Deepak Chopra
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is...”
– “Why fiction is good for you” in The Boston Globe (via commanderspock)
December 2012
21 posts
1 tag
“I have done my best.”
That is about all the philosophy of living that one...”
– Lin Yutang 