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“Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.”

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Anger is sign that something needs to change.

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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need,…

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“the Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that Freud was…

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The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never…

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One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also…

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The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

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“In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark.…

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“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another…

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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

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“A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness…

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“The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly.…

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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that…

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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

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It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces…

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The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do…

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“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus…

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So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai…

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“The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.”

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