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- Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from…
- Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
- This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
- Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with…
- Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
- Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are…
- Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in…
- When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And…
- Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or…
- We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.…
- At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
- Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly…
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
- The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
- If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
- No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a…
- Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to…
- …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time…
- Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
- Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold…
- Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
- None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
- It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen…
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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