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- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
- In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
- We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
- Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to…
- Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,…
- A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss,…
- If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for…
- For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can…
- When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us…
- Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
- We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
- There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
- Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
- We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
- When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and…
- Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may…
- Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we…
- In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is…
- The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for…
- We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
- When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
- When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We…
- Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life…
- It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong