Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Finding Freedom Through Attitude

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The attempt to look at your attitude—what you are feeling and thinking and the frame that holds it, and then your attitude to your attitu...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Honesty’s Advantage

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Being honest about our limitations protects us from becoming patronizing and self-satisfied. When we are more honest, we don’t have as mu...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 7, 2018

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The reason we are addicted to power is because of separateness—separate nations, separate states, separate religions, and separate people...

Via Daily Dharma: Sorting Out Love and Attachment

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Attachment is the very opposite of love. Love says, “I want you to be happy.” Attachment says, “I want you to make me happy.” —Tenzin Pal...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Compassion We Give, The Compassion We Want

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To be compassionate to those we do not have to be compassionate towards, and to those who expect little if any compassion—is this not the...
Friday, January 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Jealousy Is a Warning

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When I start feeling jealous of others, it’s a warning sign that I’ve become a little bit too entranced by some idea of myself and have l...

Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go of Perfection

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A good fit is not the same as a perfect fit, if such a thing even exists. Rather, a good fit contains good imperfections, things that don’t...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Right Action through Community

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Connection with others loosens the bonds of self-concern and helps us find our best course of action in the world. —Henry Shukman, “ The ...

Via Ram Dass / 7 of 25 Words of Wisdom - January 3, 2018

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  You can get to the place of being loving awareness, but before you can love the universe or other people you have to be able to lov...

Via Daily Dharma: Joyful Reflection

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The process of setting intentions and joyfully reflecting on them is how, over time, we transform extrinsic into intrinsic motivations, a...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 31, 2017

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You can't push yourself into enlightenment... You can only wait for grace. - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Wise Resolutions

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The most comfortable and wisest people are those who watch their health when they are healthy; guard their country when it is untroubled; a...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: True Self-Refinement

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Through the constant refining of the self—of teasing out what is not self and letting it go—we suffer less, get unburdened, feel lighter....
Friday, December 29, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Accept Yourself

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In accepting yourself, you’re simply agreeing to the fact that you are already accepted by the entire universe, just as you are. —Ruben ...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Our Fearsome Friend

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If we understand fear as an evolved survival mechanism, we gain some perspective and perhaps some release from our identification with th...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 27, 2017

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For respect to come to you, you must respect yourself first. And for you to respect yourself first, you've got to make contact with...

Via Daily Dharma: The Great Teacher

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Nature is the great teacher. Shakyamuni went to the jungle to find its teachings, Moses up the mountain, Jesus to the desert, and Bodhidh...

Via Daily Dharma: Let Desire Melt Away

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All we can say is that desire arises in the mind, stays in it for a while, and dissolves in it. The more we try to find any intrinsic ch...