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“Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.”
“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, its easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our abi...”
“Living in a story of a limited selfto any degreeis not love.”
“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.”
“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I dedicate to the welfare of all beings.May the roots of sufferi...”
“Greed kills us all.”
“Excerpt from "The Long Road from Perdition" for the day:"...I've always been drawn to the ocean. It is here that I now feel peaceful and can lose my thoughts while immersed in the deafening sounds ...”
“How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.”
“To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.”
“Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.”
“We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.”
“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”
“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”
“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.”
“Watchfulness is the path of immortality:Unwatchfulness is the path of death.Those who are watchful never die:Those who do not watch are already as dead.Those who with a clear mind have seen this tr...”
“Let the breath lead the way.”
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food, reading his books, sleeping in his bed. They had taken over the j...”
“We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.”
