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Undefined
Life is bigger than the circumstances I find myself in right now. I don’t need to be defined by what is happening in my life right now. There’s so much else, so much possibility, suddenly the door swings open and we can breathe
— Sharon Salzberg
What it is
As long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God
— Ram Dass
Emptiness
When Buddhism talks about emptiness, it’s not talking about a type of nonexistence whatsoever. Rather, the teachings on emptiness point to the notion of possibility, that anything can happen
— H.H the 17th Karmapa
Feeling It
Mindfulness practice isn’t meant to eliminate thinking but aims rather to help us know what we’re thinking when we’re thinking it, just as we want to know what we’re feeling when we’re feeling it.
— Sharon Salzberg
Suffering in Paradise
As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise
— Byron Katie
The Future
The function of one generation is to make change possible for the next. The real function of each generation is to sow the seeds that will make a better world possible in the future
— Joan Chittister
On Love
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true
— Adyashanti