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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as…
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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…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
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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…
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.…
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Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's…
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot…
— Sherman Alexie
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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
— Wilferd Peterson
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There are no ordinary lives.
— Ken Burns
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me…
— Russell Banks
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Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,…
— Henri Nouwen
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
— Doris Lessing
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
— George Will
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I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I…
— Thomas Merton
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew…
— Stephen King
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[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping…
— Brennan Manning
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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
— Tracy Chapman
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