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, August 5, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 5, 2020 💌
"I invite you when you are caught in your stuff and your heart is
closed, to reach out to find someone else who is suffering – to be there
with them for a moment.
What I find when my heart is closed is that the purity of their heart pulls me out of myself very quickly.
For those of you who have gotten caught in individualism and separation – the act of serving another human being is a doorway back into your connection to the universe. Their real need pulls you out of yourself."
What I find when my heart is closed is that the purity of their heart pulls me out of myself very quickly.
For those of you who have gotten caught in individualism and separation – the act of serving another human being is a doorway back into your connection to the universe. Their real need pulls you out of yourself."
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Identifying with Wholeness
It’s
easy to identify with all the places we’ve been hurt and abandoned, but
can we identify with the timeless wholeness that weathers every abuse,
every condition?
—Bonnie Myotai Treace, “The Sword Disappears in the Water”
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—Bonnie Myotai Treace, “The Sword Disappears in the Water”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
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