Saturday, December 15, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go and Reaching Out

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If we’re able to catch an angry thought as it’s budding, we can let it go. The same is true of despair or hopelessness. And when letting ...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Recipe for Compassion

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It is not sufficient merely to see that sentient beings are suffering. You must also develop a sense of closeness with them, a sense that...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Insightful Curiosity

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We need to be able to utilize the positive energy of wondering, of wanting to know the truth for ourselves and working to do that, and no...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 12, 2018 🌟

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The Living Spirit, the Beloved, is always right here. It is merely your mind that prevents you from acknowledging its existence. The m...

Via Daily Dharma: The Right Time for Meditation

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You should not limit your meditation to only in the morning or only in the evening: you should do it any time, all the time. Practice tim...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Seeing Things Clearly

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What’s the world? [It’s] any preoccupation that gets you stirred up, that disturbs you right now… If it arises in the mind, make yourself...

Via Tmblr: Map of Homosexual Rights Worldwide

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Monday, December 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Effortless Ease

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Perhaps the greatest irony of healing is that it occurs when we accept our felt experience, rather than rely on willpower or focused effo...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Inside-Out Happiness

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The Buddha taught that true happiness, or fulfillment, is independent of outer causes and conditions. So for Buddhists, the pursuit of happ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 9, 2018 🌟

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For a long time I thought truth had to mean only words, but it doesn't. There are truths that are only communicated in silence. And...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: An Invitation to Kindness

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Imagine for a moment that everything you are experiencing is your very, very best friend saying hello… Such a hello is much more than jus...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Looking Deeply Into Life

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Concentration will bring stability, stillness, and spaciousness; inquiry will bring alertness, vividness, brightness, and clarity. Combin...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The True Value of Waking Up

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Every moment of heightened consciousness is precious beyond price, for awareness is the primary currency of the human condition. —Lama Su...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Bahá'í Faith is Homophobic

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A few months ago I wrote this letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Brasil: A Assembléia Espiritual Nacional dos Bahá'ís do ...

Via Daily Dharma: Reaping the Rewards

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Whoever you are, if you have a true and sincere mind, if you are not careless in the least, if you do not go along with what worldly peop...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 5, 2018 🍁

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  I would say that most of us stay locked in our separateness and we are very frightened of coming out of it, we feel very vulnerable...

Via Daily Dharma: Complete in Connectedness

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Pervading all is a groundless awareness, delicate and strong at the same time. Everything becomes we , a beating heart with a transparent, ...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Subtlety of Effort

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There’s no switch that turns on enlightenment. You move toward it with your effort. It’s an effort that might be unrecognizable to those ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 2, 2018 🍁

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Part of your curriculum with aging is to shift your game in order to honor the systems of which you're a part so that you finish yo...