“A society that is fearful of self-examination and exploration can't believably say that it trusts in God. Nor can it believably say that it values every living being. We must trust the totality of our nature, in terms of both… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“Only when I dropped the notion that I was the creator of my own peace or oneness, or that I was powerful enough to change the world by acting to change others did I experience the way of tenderness.” — 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
“When I turned toward the hurt in the silence, I entered a kind of tenderness that was not sore, not wounded, but rather powerfully… — 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 that it… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“Only when I dropped the notion that I was the creator of my own peace or oneness, or that I was powerful enough to… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
