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“If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.”

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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you…

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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and…

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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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“Another simile is that of the man who was born and raised in a prison and who has never set foot outside. All he knows is prison life. He would have no conception of the freedom that is beyond his world. And he would not understand that prison is suffering. If anybody suggested that his world was dukkha, he would…

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How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many…

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Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people…

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“We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have…

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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

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