“The sudden death of oak trees in where I live in Oakland is like a clear cry naturally emerging from nature, just… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“I still experience this chill today when a song or chant touches some place inside my body that my mind cannot name...… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“When we say 'living without anything our hearts,' we do not mean emptiness in the sense of zero, but rather that the… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“A society that is fearful of self-examination and exploration can't believably say that it trusts in God. Nor can it believably say… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The sudden death of oak trees in where I live in Oakland is like a clear cry naturally emerging from nature, just as cries… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“What happens to a hurt people? We forget that we are butterflies bearing up in the wild winds. We forget that we are tender… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“I still experience this chill today when a song or chant touches some place inside my body that my mind cannot name... Harmony, like… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:8).” — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“In her classic book "When Things Fall Apart," Pema Chodron says that everyone and everything is always falling apart. At times we are benefited… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“When we say 'living without anything our hearts,' we do not mean emptiness in the sense of zero, but rather that the heart remains… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“...it was difficult for me to trust in the medicinal teaching that we must recognize friction and the not-so-good circumstances in life as being… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“When we fully know in our hearts who we are as living beings, not only emotionally, psychologically, politically, or socially, we can share a… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The silence regarding race, sexuality, and gender in spiritual literature may create the illusion that all is well in our spiritual communities, or that… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“I find intimacy within and between all of us that is not sentimental or romantic. From one point of view this intimacy can be… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“...Identity arises spontaneously out of our bodies and minds, and spontaneously evolves in name, meaning, structure, and appearance. All of these spontaneously arising things… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“Our potent contemporary cultural sanctuaries shape the Dharma to fit our cultural traditions so that the mirroring needed for spiritual paths to work can… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
