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- What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:…
- Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we…
- Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
- Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress…
- To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still…
- Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great…
- The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own…
- Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands…
- When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense…
- Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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