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“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
“Maybe love at first sight isnt what we think it is. Maybe its recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.”
“True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion.”
“When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.”
“Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be.”
“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”
“All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness through others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanat...”
“Beliefs are a powerful thing. I often travel the world and sometimes the local waitresses attending me are nervous if they cant speak English. Now, when this happens, I point at the pictures in the...”
“As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffer...”
“Most people tend to excuse themselves with the opportunities they have in life, with how many years of school they have, with the people around them. And in doing so, they fail in realizing many ot...”
“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggest...”
“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, a...”
“While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...”
“I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see...”
“Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.”
“You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.”
“So often we operate from ideas of love that dont fit our reality.”
“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.”
“To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.”
“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.”
