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- Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress…
- Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
- Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we…
- Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a…
- Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening…
- Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the…
- It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to…
- Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
- What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
- To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who…
- We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it…
- The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see…
- Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if…
- Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see…
- There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a…
- Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
- One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue.…
- It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion…
- Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
- Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according…
- Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their…
- As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that…
- It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong.…
- We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them…
- When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around…
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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