Times have always been “hard and scary” with greed, hate, and delusion running all the shows. The other thing that’s always been true is that Life is indeed a gift, and ending suffering is possible for any who choose it.
– Cheri Huber
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Once fear and poison are out of our energy, we begin to move like Luke Skywalker trusting the Force. Enlightened people say they watch as some benevolent energy does things, efficiently and effectively, through their bodies. Learning to let yourself be moved this way is the Third Task of Bewilderment. Practice this Task every day, and you’ll begin to feel weirdly…how can I put this…assisted. Things will get done more quickly and easily. Inspiration will begin to flow.
– Martha Beck, The Third Task for Bewilderment: Let Yourself Be Moved
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“It can sometimes seem as if one person will not be very effective. However, change in the world always begins with an individual who shares what he or she has learned and passes it on to others.”
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet House
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Avoidance of envy, if it was ever feasible, is a dinosaur gone extinct. The trick is to steer ourselves toward the emotion’s beneficial side. . . . envy can bring us closer to what we dearly want to attain, and help us course-correct, if necessary, to get ourselves back on track.
– Louisa Kamps, “In Defense of Envy “
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By paying attention to sensory experience as it is happening–and not getting caught up in the labels, preferences, thoughts, and emotions that happen in the split seconds after bare sense-data impinge on our awareness–we learn to see the suffering involved in getting caught up. And by seeing that suffering, we learn to free ourselves from it.
– Cynthia Thatcher, “Disconnect the Dots “
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The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not the world but the eyes that look”¦ To form the intention of new awareness is already to transform and be transformed.
– Jane Hirshfield
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