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- To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing…
- Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,…
- It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by…
- Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
- We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
- But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the…
- We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like…
- Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
- Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
- Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
- We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.
- I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one…
- The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are...
- Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of…
- Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
- It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well…
- Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that…
- there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved…
- Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
- Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
More Us Quotes
- 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