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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a…
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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…
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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…
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
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To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really…
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To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our…
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
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Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
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We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have…
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Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual…
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But…
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
— J. Nozipo Maraire
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Drama often obscures the real issues
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To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to…
— Joanne Stepaniak
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
— Kabir
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Hatred obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
— Mark Epstein
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality…
— Byron Katie
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