A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Joy
When
we are not attached to who we think we are, life can move through us,
playing us like an instrument. Understanding how everything is in
continual transformation, we release our futile attempts to control
circumstances. When we live in this easy connection with life, we live
in joy.
—James Baraz, “Lighten Up!”
—James Baraz, “Lighten Up!”
Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 17, 2018 🍁
One of the big traps we have in the West is our intelligence, because we
want to know that we know. Freedom allows you to be wise, but you
cannot know wisdom. You must be wisdom. When my guru wanted to put me
down, he called me ‘clever.’ When he wanted to reward me, he would call
me ‘simple.’ The intellect is a beautiful servant, but a terrible
master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive,
compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
- Ram Dass -
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