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- 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…
- Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in…
- Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.
- A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of…
- For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
- In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion,…
- Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety,…
- A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation…
- Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We…
- Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
- Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness
- When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs…
- Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future,…
- The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
- We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the…
- Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our…
- What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.
- We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that…
- Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means…
- And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of…
- Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of…
- Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows…
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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