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“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. The frenzy of the activist…destroys his own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

– Thomas Merton

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Understanding and Respect

Learning about other faiths helps us to understand, and to live side by side with, differing views and belief systems. To remain in one tradition without absorbing the benefits of the others seems disrespectful to the gifts that the Buddha passed down to us. Only through mutual understanding and respect can we successfully implement what the Buddha taught.

– Scott Hunt, “Scott Hunt’s Seaworthy Dream In Two Parts”

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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

– Howard Thurman

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“We have to live in such a way that we realise our dream every day. We all need a dream to nourish us and give life meaning. We can even ask our parents, Have you realised your dream? Can I help you realise it?”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Cultivating Relaxed Awareness

When the thinking mind takes a break for even a few seconds, a kind of relaxed awareness replaces the usual stream of thoughts. We need to encourage this and not fill this space with anything else; just let it be.

– Tsultrim Allione, “Feeding Your Demons”

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“Free will is possible, with the condition that you practice mindfulness. You use mindfulness and concentration to get insight. And with that insight you can make decisions based on the real suchness of things. You are not just a puppet of store consciousness. We have our sovereignty , but we have to use our sovereignty to water the positive seeds in store consciousness. Our future depends entirely on the value of our store consciousness. “

– Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha Mind, Buddha Body

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

– Mark Twain

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“You keep going.
That is the bodhisattva’s way.
As long as it benefits even one being you have to, without any sense of discouragement, go on.”

– His Holiness the 16th Karmapa

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Paying the Bills, Ethically

If we are embarking on a spiritual path, we need to live our lives ethically, and this means ensuring that we do as little harm as possible to anyone or anything while we’re earning our daily bread.

– Krishnan Venkatesh, “Why Right Livelihood Isn’t Just About Your Day Job”

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Tsoknyi Rinpoche; Roshi Joan Halifax
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
What we most need to do is to hear, within us, the sound of the earth crying.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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