Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: How distance is shortened

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Only from the heart

can you touch the sky

Rumi

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The places that scare you

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The five instructions given to Machig Labdron in the 12th century by her teacher Padampa Sangye

Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find distasteful.
Help those you do not want to help.
Anything you are attached to, let go of.
Go to the places that scare you.

Finally seeing

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Life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.

It is the opening of eyes long closed.

Davids Whyte, The Opening of Eyes

Photo of Lake Leman from Nyon by Alexandra Lee

Underneath it all

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When we use the term “basic goodness”,

we are talking about our inherent completeness.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sunday quote: Not losing hope

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You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.

You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

A troubled world

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With again more news of violence and hatred….

Ultimately we have just one moral duty:

to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more

and to reflect it towards others, and the more peace there is in us,

the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum, killed in Auschwitz in November 1943  aged 21.

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