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- You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the…
- There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something…
- We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it…
- You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up,…
- There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs…
- The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily lives, then we…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
- Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may…
- Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living…
- The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
- The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What…
- We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.…
- Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at…
- Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all…
- The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and…
- A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a…
- Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a…
- It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain,…
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