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- When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to…
- It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and…
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and…
- Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that…
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
- To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
- Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
- To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always…
- My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness.…
- Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you…
- In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
- Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for…
More Live Quotes
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong