Via Daily Dharma: How to Appreciate Just Being

It is precisely our recognition of life’s inevitable hardships, along with our uprooting of the attachment that exacerbates them, that allows us to appreciate the mere fact of being.

—Reverend Patti Nakai, “Someone Is Jealous of You”

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Via Daily Dharma: Unclench Your Fist

The cultivation of liberation and compassion go together like the front and back of an open hand. Clinging, attachment and mental bondage are like clenching the hand into a fist. When the fist is opened, liberation and compassion are both there.

—Gil Fronsdal, “Why I Walk Two Paths”

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