Tag: Awareness

Sunday Quote: Be silent

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Be silent

only the hand of God can remove the burdens of the heart

Rumi

A burning patience

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Lastly, I wish to say to the people of good will, to the workers, to the poets: The whole future has been expressed in this line by Rimbaud: “Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind“

Pablo Neruda, 1904 – 1973, Chilean poet

Tolerance

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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.

Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.


The Dalai Lama

Not more, but less

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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. 

Completion comes, not from adding another piece to ourselves,

but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective

Sunday Quote: free

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If you know a view as a view, you can be free of that view.

If you know a thought as a thought, you can be free of that thought.

Norman Fischer, Beyond Language

Beyond likes and dislikes

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The person who has gone beyond likes and dislikes, Sri Ramakrishna will say, is like an autumn leaf floating in the wind.

It floats gently here when the wind flows here, it goes there when the wind blows there, and slowly it settles to the ground.

Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living