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“Imagine waking up one morning to the realization that you have no opinions. And that, moreover, you have no likes or dislikes. What would the...

We tend to define ourselves and fashion our identities in opposition to other people instead of discovering who we really are in relationship with other...

“No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words. — Dōgen”

“This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within … Prisons...

No idea why, but the Scandinavian concept of Hygge has never appealed to me. Quite the reverse, I find coziness suffocating and stultifying. Then again...

“Make no mistake about this. We are are not doing life. Life is doing us. — The myth of doership”

We don’t exist and function and live exactly as we do without every other aspect of the universe doing the same.

Notice how explanations don’t explain anything and fail to bring an end to questioning. As children we knew this very well. Always asking ‘why?’ to...

If memories were needed, were meant to last, we’d never forget a thing.

Judging others from a distance is easy, lazy and more often than not, diminishes the self, all the while hiding behind a wall of self...

“…even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field...

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy”

Our hope for a particular outcome can blind us to the truth of why it doesn’t happen.

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those...

There are no obstacles to life. Obstacles are life.

Our existence is our statement. Our being is our saying. Everything is said in our living.

“We too are living now through such a world, caught again between two ages, confused and conflicted, suffocating and suffering. But we have a powerful...

Interesting. Back leg out this time as she considers her options.

Anyway

The Paradoxical Commandments By Kent M. Keith “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. ❧ If you do good, people will accuse you...

“The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness are unsatisfactory, they have the same value. — Ajahn Chah Morning meditation”