Friday, January 12, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: You Can’t Force Your Heart Open

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A wide and caring heart is not a “should” or an obligation but a longing that awakens naturally. —Radhule Weininger, “ Brief Teachings ” ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Via 3 of 13 Daily Dharma: The Seed of True Kindness

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When we start to develop maitri for ourselves—unconditional acceptance of ourselves—then we’re really taking care of ourselves in a way tha...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Via BBC / Inter-American Human Rights Court backs same-sex marriage

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that same-sex marriages should be recognised. The court's rulings apply to...

Via Ram Dass / 4 of 21 Words of Wisdom - January 10, 2018

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I don't want people doing their practices because they ought to be good. I want you doing your practices like you go to the toile...

Via Daily Dharma: Zig Zag Practice

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Practice is never a straight line to a fixed goal. It is always a mixture of moments of confusion and moments of clarity, periods of disc...
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....