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- What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more…
- We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more…
- The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
- Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things.…
- If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.
- The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for…
- You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard…
- There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity...…
- Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
- We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our…
- Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
- Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…
- We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy,…
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