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“The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of Bodhicitta,
together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking.”

– Patrul Rinpoche, from “The Words of My Perfect Teacher”

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The Natural Order of Things

While we live, we are able to live. When it’s time to die, we are able to die. This is the natural order of things, and to the extent that we align ourselves with this, we experience peace even in the midst of distress.

– Meikyo Robert Rosenbaum, “Breathless”

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Today, if you’re confronting an issue for the ten thousandth time, or feeling that your life is going nowhere, or panicking over how little you’ve achieved, stop and breathe. You’re not falling behind on some linear race through time. You’re walking the labyrinth of life.

– MB- The Labyrinth of Life

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The Truth Is Never Far Away

We tell stories about who we are and what life is, but seldom see that they’re only stories. The good news is that the truth is never far away. It’s right here, in fact, posing as backdrop.

– Erik Hansen, “The Island”

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“”Get-What-You-Want”” Buddhism

Some of us already have the material basics; some of us do not. All of us want a respite from suffering. And the thirst for nirvana is no less a desire than is the hope for a better job or the wish that one’s grandchildren will carry on the family’s Buddhist traditions. We all practice get-what-you-want Buddhism; we just want different things.

– Jan Nattier, “Visible & Invisible “

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Dance is one of the most powerful things that we can do. The women of Congo have really taught me, because they’ve suffered the worst atrocities on this planet, and yet their capacity to dance and transform their pain into power is remarkable.

– Eve Ensler

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

– The Buddha

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24. True happiness is based on peace.

“Many people think excitement is happiness-. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Integrating Realization

Spiritual realization is relatively easy compared with the much greater difficulty of actualizing it, integrating it fully into the fabric of one’s daily life. Realization is the movement from personality to being, the direct recognition of one’s ultimate nature, leading toward liberation from the conditioned self, while actualization refers to how we integrate that realization in all the situations of our life.

– John Welwood, “The Psychology of Awakening”

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The Basic Fuel for Practice

Awareness of the truth of suffering and impermanence always provides fertile ground for spiritual practice.

– Pamela Gayle White, “Who Are We Without Our Memories?”

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