February 2012
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“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Compassion is a verb.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, “At Home in Our Bodies”
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life but the ability to cope...”
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“Watching impartially opens the mind to realize that there is no way that we can...”
– Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Wisdom Arising”
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“‘Make your whole life unceasing gratitude,’ he said. ‘What is...”
– Huston Smith, Tales of Wonder, p. 134
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“You need to appreciate the disparity between how you appear to your mind and how...”
– Dalai Lama, How to See Yourself as You Really Are, p. 31
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“Thus consciousness is at the same time empty and not empty. It is no longer...”
– CG Jung, CW 13, Alchemical Studies, paragraph 65
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“The apprehension of inerent existence is the cause of all unhealthy views....”
– An aphorism from Nagarjuna that conveys the meaning of emptiness
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“‘Emptiness’ means empty of a separate self. It is full of...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Heart of Understanding 26-27
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“May all beings experience happiness and its causes (loving-kindness).
May all...”
– Basic Practices for Cultivating & Balancing the Four Radiant Abodes. Recite, chant, or silently repeat an aspiration. (Patrick Mahaffey).
“We are not called upon as Buddhists to deny the world, and certainly not to...”
– Clark Strand, “Worry Beads”
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of...”
– Helen Keller
January 2012
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“If we expect permanency in a world of impermanent, we create worry.”
“Life is not going to follow you, you have to follow life.”
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“If you do not descend into the vast ocean, you can never acquire a priceless...”
– The Vimalakirti Sutra. Trans by Watson. P95-96
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“Words, writing, all are marks of emancipation. Why? Because emancipation is not...”
– The Vimalakirti Sutra. Trans by Watson. P88
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“All things are just like that-they do not exist, yet do not not exist. And that...”
– The Vimalakirti Sutra. Trans by Watson. P91
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“This moment contains all moments.”
– CS Lewis
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“It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be “wise...”
– Dalai Lama
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“By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering...”
– page 513, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
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“There is no greater suffering than hunger. Hunger wastes our bodies and destroys...”
– Page 423, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
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“Words cannot describe reality. Only direct experience enables us to see the true...”
– page 213, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
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“When we learn to calm our minds in order to look deeply at the true nature of...”
– pages 120-121, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
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“He smiled, and looked up at a pippala leaf imprinted against the blue sky, its...”
– page 115, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of The Buddha
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“The drops in the river of perceptions intermingled and influenced each other in...”
– page 114, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of The Buddha
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“He saw the oneness of body and mind, that each and every cell of the body...”
– page 108, Thich Nhat Hanh Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
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