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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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If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
— Chuck Noll
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Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
— Chuck Noll
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I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary…
— Frederick Franck
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air…
— Caryll Houselander
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.
— Jim Rohn
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
— Unknown Author
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The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a…
— Balthus
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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the…
— Tracy Kidder
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One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to…
— Thomas Merton
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
— Alex Colville
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You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more…
— Joan Armatrading
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