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...”
– unknown
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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