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- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the…
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
- Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
- The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that…
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.
- When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
- Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the…
- Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat.…
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
- Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
- Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can…
- As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,…
- It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without…
- Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
- Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could…
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