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- Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism,…
- When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
- To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
- As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
- The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear…
- There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original…
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