Revoked

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.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Via Words of Wisdom - February 10, 2019 💌

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The root of the problem lies in the way we deal with change. Most of us feel so insecure that we want to create a structure around us ...

Via Daily Dharma: See for Yourself

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Seeing for yourself, from your own experience, what works and what doesn’t is what meditation is all about. —Jason Siff, “ The Problem wi...

Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Itself

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To manifest wisdom means simply to step back and see—to reflect, inquire, be aware, be disciplined, and be focused not once in a while, b...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Uncovering Love

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Because a loving heart is the very nature of every human being, to cultivate love does not mean to fabricate something that is not alread...

Via Daily Dharma: What You Gain When You Lose

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Loss itself is a time-honored gateway; it encourages a shift from anxiety and attachment to the pursuit of a new spiritual awareness. —Dav...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Fresh Perspectives

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When we open our hearts and our minds completely, we are in a place where we can experience something new, a new truth, a new reality, a ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 6, 2019 💌

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One doesn’t have to beat down one’s ego for God. That isn’t the way it works. The ego isn’t in the way, it’s how we are holding the eg...

Via FB: Socialism is the new Communism apparently, many aspects of our lives are impacted by Socialism here in the USA

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1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Our Nature

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Again and again, I am reminded that the wild, like the human spirit, cannot be managed or reproduced, it can only be recognized, protecte...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Our Common Thread

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My Buddhist practice is about unity; it’s about coming together and not differentiating ourselves, about really understanding that we are...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Beauty in the Breakdown

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The real treasure begins in the breaking. The body breaks, things change, life ends. Only when impermanence is fully apprehended do we re...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 3, 2019 💌

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My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it— to cultivate the quiet place in me ...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: At the Heart of It All

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The human heart is not personal: the more we fathom our own hearts, the more we find there the being of others and, beyond that, the very...

Ellen Page’s emotional takedown of Trump & Pence’s attacks on LGBTQ people is rocking the nation

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02/ellen-pages-emotional-takedown-trump-pences-attacks-lgbtq-people-rocking-nation/?utm_source=notific...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Path to Joy

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With steady awareness of the way things are, the perseverance to stay with that awareness, and the willingness to learn from it, we maxim...

Via Daily Dharma: Give Yourself Space

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What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities, that allows us to live a rich and ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 30, 2019 💌

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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Our Home of Practice

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The body is our house—and how we live in it and where we occupy it are uniquely ours, as well as being part of the common human experienc...

Via Marianne Williamson (Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage)

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May this house be a sacred dwelling for those who live here.  May those who visit feel the peace we have received from You.  May dar...
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