July 2010
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“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and...”
– Buddha
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“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama (via sealmaiden) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love...”
– Johann Goethe, found in Radical Simplicity by Dan Price (via sacredgraffiti) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Enlightenment is only the beginning, is only a step of the journey. You can’t...”
– quoted by Jack Kornfield in “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry” (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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Norman Fischer on Meditation →
crashinglybeautiful:
“This doesn’t work by thought and will. It doesn’t disregard thought and will, but thought and will are not the engine that makes this go. The engine that makes this go is taking a step back and trusting the body, trusting the breath, trusting the heart. We’re living our lives madly trying to hold onto everything, and it looks like it might work for awhile but in the...
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“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest...”
– Octavia E. Butler (via libraryland) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“When I say not to think, I mean that if you have a thought, think nothing of it.”
– Zen Master on meditation (via bidzovka) (via fuckyeahzenmind) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“The truths we have come to understand need to find their visible expression in...”
– Jack Kornfield
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“So as long as the mind is comparing, there is no love, and the mind is always...”
– J. Krishnamurti, excerpt from a conversation with students at Rajghat School, December 19, 1952 (from: paynehollow via: The Beauty We Love) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“I have said that man is asked a question by the very fact of his existence, and...”
– Erich Fromm, “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism” (via suchness) (via crashinglybeautiful)
What a great description Fromm offers here. However I don’t agree with the adjective “religious”. You can frame this also in a purely secular way. But still the description is adequate and...
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“Start strong..stay strong..and finish strong..by always remembering why you...”
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“think, dear sir, of the world you carry within you. […] what goes on in your...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” (via wearebasiclight) (via astrophysicists) (via petersantiago) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“The Neuroscience of Getting Along” - an...
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10 Happiness Tips for People Who Have Been Hurt
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” - Unknown
1. Define your pain.
2. Express that pain.
3. Try to stay in the present.
4. Stop telling the story.
5. Forgive yourself.
6. Stop playing the blame/victim game.
7. Don’t let the pain become your identity.
8. Reconnect with who you were before the pain.
9. Focus on things that bring you joy in the moment.
10. Share that joy with...
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“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the...”
– Bertrand Russell (via reluctantbuddha)
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“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
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“All you can do is start writing and do the best you can. I really think that we...”
– Lisa Schroeder
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Watch
mandirigma:
george takei and his longtime partner talking about love.
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““If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can...”
– Dalai Lama
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“Turn a tragedy into a personal triumph.”
– Victor Frankl
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