Friday, September 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom Within You

Wisdom isn’t something you can “do” or “make happen”—it’s there in all of us. By becoming more familiar with that space within ourselves and trusting our own instincts more fully, we can learn to apply this quality of discriminating wisdom in everyday life.

—Andy Puddicombe, “10 Tips for Living More Mindfully

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 19, 2018


The quality of the heart is that it loves without discrimination, it just loves, it has no boundaries. The mind is continually setting boundaries. 'This is me, this is not me, this is good, this is bad.'

The mind is constantly judging, the heart is not judging, the heart is just opening. The heart is without boundaries, so the mind is actually afraid of the heart. That's what the interesting thing is, the battle that goes on in us - you're afraid of your own heart because your heart will give away the store.

The heart says, ‘You need my car, you need my house, you need my life, take it.’ And the mind is saying, ‘Now wait a minute. You've got your health insurance to pay, keep cool, don't blow the whole scene.’

So the interesting question is when and under what conditions can you meet people in such a way that you can keep your heart open without giving up your discriminative wisdom about how to be with another person.

- Ram Dass


From our new free 4-week online course 'The Yoga of Relationships: Exploring Connection and Sexuality Through the Lens of the Soul" - beginning September 24th.

Claim your spot here.

Via Daily Dharma: Embody Full Presence

In meditation, we train in letting go of thoughts of the past and future as they arise, and in tuning in to full, immediate presence instead.

—Pamela Gayle White, “What Our Memories Make Us

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Language of Compassion

Nonviolent Communication... is a method for resolving conflict by expressing needs without blame or criticism, then listening and responding empathically.

—Katy Butler, “Say it Right

Via Pinterest / Mudras


Monday, September 17, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Your Shortcomings

Peace and kindness have their best shot at establishing themselves when we accept our own inadequacy, when limitation and error become aspects of ourselves we can embrace rather than strive to mask.

—Henry Shukman, “The Art of Being Wrong

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2018


"It’s amazing how the nature of your relationships change when it’s coming out of love instead of trying to get love."

- Ram Dass

From our new free 4-week online course 'The Yoga of Relationships: Exploring Connection and Sexuality Through the Lens of the Soul" - beginning September 24th.

Claim your spot here.

Via Daily Dharma: Trust in the Three Jewels

We can choose to take refuge in the brilliant sanity of enlightenment, the Buddha; trust the process of the path, the Dharma; and rely on the experience of those who guide us along the path, the Sangha.

—Lama Tsony, “Facing Fear

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Pure Selflessness

The act of giving purifies intention, the quality of mind with which any action is undertaken. For a brief moment, the giver’s self-absorption is lifted, attachment to the gift is relinquished, and kindness towards the recipient is developed.

—Andrew Olendzki, “The Wisdom of Giving

Friday, September 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Respecting Pain

How do we develop this appreciation of things just as they are, especially if we are sick and in pain? We must treat our pain gently, respectfully, not resisting it but living with it.

—Darlene Cohen, “The Practice of Nonpreference

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Positive Qualities Within

As progress is made on the path, the positive qualities required for further advancement will become part of you, and you will gradually learn how to assimilate and become these positive qualities, rather than regarding them as something to be attained and possessed.

—Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, “Letting Go of Spiritual Experience

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Rostam - "In a River" (Official Animation Video)

Via Purple Buddha / Basics of Buddhism






Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 12, 2018


“If there is one thing that a person needs from another human being, it’s to be appreciated, to be listened to, to be heard. Just as you are, not as I would make you."

- Ram Dass


From our new free 4-week online course 'The Yoga of Relationships: Exploring Connection and Sexuality Through the Lens of the Soul" - beginning September 24th.

Claim your spot here.

Via Daily Dharma: Where We Belong

We can get dragged back into the past, which can lead to depression, or we can become anxious about the future, which can lead to fear. Conscious breathing returns us to the here and the now, where we really belong.

—Gary Gach, “Brief Teachings

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Trusting Your Creativity

When we trust our creative energy, we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment—an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “Free Expression

Monday, September 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Enlightened Transitions

All the transitions in life—dream, meditation, death, and rebirth, all the unending transitions in what we call existence and nonexistence—are each and every one a path of enlightenment.

—Douglas Penick, “Bidia Dandaron

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 9, 2018


"If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. "

- Ram Dass, from his newly released book with co-author Mirabai Bush 'Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying'

Order your copy here.

Via Daily Dharma: Supportive Awareness

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention