Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - May 3, 2020 💌

"The left hand is caught and the right-hand pulls it out. The left-hand turns to the right and says ‘thank you.’ It doesn’t work because they are both parts of the same body. Who are you thanking? You’re thanking yourself. So on that plane, you realize it’s not her suffering, his suffering, or their suffering.
You go up one level, it’s our suffering. You go up another level, it’s my suffering. Then as it gets de-personalized, it’s the suffering. Out of the identity with the suffering comes compassion. It arises in relation to the suffering. It’s part and parcel of the whole package. There is nothing personal in this at all.
In that sense, you have become compassion instead of doing compassionate acts. Instead of being compassionate, you are compassion."

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Realizing Our Ever-Present Connection

No matter how despairing or cut off we can feel at any given time, we are not actually severed from the essential flow of life or from one another. If we get quiet for a while and pay careful attention, this is what we realize.

—Sharon Salzberg, “Forever Connected”

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Lama Surya Das – Awakening Now – Ep. 91 – The Golden Eternity

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Via FB // Mensagem de Dra Paula Loureiro - 28/04/2020

Amigos...

Pelo que os especialistas afirmam a partir de amanhã teremos no mínimo 30 dias difíceis, de muita dor para muitos... de muitas perdas e só temos um remédio para tentar diminuir tudo isso... realizando de forma séria e muito cuidadosa o isolamento social... conversem com os amigos... os familiares... com os mais jovens, o contágio é gigantesco... pode vir no ar.... na tosse... espirro... sola dos sapatos... em sacos de supermercado... embalagens etc... vamos juntos vencer esse vírus... vai passar... mas precisamos fazer que passe sem tantas perdas e sofrimento. Vamos fazer uma grande campanha a partir de hoje...envie sua mensagens para todos os amigos e familiares... vamos ter nos próximos dias a maior taxa de isolamento social do Brasil... juntos somos mais fortes... não esqueça envie agora mesmo sua mensagem em todas as redes sociais... cuidem da higiene pessoal... lavem as mãos sempre e evitem tocar no rosto. Fé em Deus! Esperamos que depois disso tudo passar... possamos voltar melhores... muita coisa precisa mudar dentro de nós e no mundo!

Mensagem de Dra Paula Loureiro - 28/04/2020

Via White Crane Institute / This Day in Gay History - BENJAMIN SPOCK

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Dr. Benjamin Spock and a child who will, no doubt, Live Long and Prosper

1903 -

The go-to pediatrician BENJAMIN SPOCK was born (d: 1998). Before there was Vulcan "Spock" there was Dr. Spock. His book, Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."

Spock was an early advocate for the rights of LGBT people. He was also the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election on a platform which called for free medical care, the repeal of "victimless crime" laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries. He died in 1998.

Via Daily Dharma: An Antidote to Fear

[One] way to think about lovingkindness is as the absence of fear, because when we think of times when lovingkindness is not our first impulse… usually fear is present.

—Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, “The Four Immeasurables: A Science of Compassion”

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Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Be Happy Right Now

We cannot enjoy life if we spend our time and energy worrying about what happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow. If we’re afraid all the time, we miss out on the wonderful fact that we’re alive and can be happy right now.

—Thich Nhat Hanh, “Free from Fear”

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Tibetan Healing Sounds: Cleans the Aura and Space. Removes all negative energy

70 minute~7 Chakra Continuous Meditation with 21 Antique Tibetan Singing Bowls

Quick 11 min. Chakra Tune-up with Himalayan Singing Bowls HD

A Simple, Powerful Prayer in Challenging Times

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Via Lions Roar / Buddhist Teachings, Wisdom, and Practices for the Coronavirus Era

The coronavirus crisis changed our world in just a matter of weeks, thrusting us into danger, uncertainty, fear, and of course social isolation. Adjusting to all this is a challenge for us all. Thankfully, there’s a wealth of Buddhist wisdom to help us.  

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The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost (Powerful Life Poetry)

Desiderata - A Life Changing Poem for Hard Times

Via Daily Dharma: Filling with Silence

Silence can be an emptiness that is, paradoxically, full. You do not occupy this silence; it occupies you.

—Mark C. Taylor,“Hearing Silence”

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Via Buddhist Global Relief // Vesak

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Via Daily Dharma: Waking to What Life Really Is Inbox x

Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are down below the ego image. We wake up to what life really is.

—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “What Exactly Is Vipassana Meditation?”

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Via Daily Dharma: How to Suffer Less

You eliminate an enormous amount of suffering by concentrating on the suffering that is actually present instead of creating more with your thinking. It is the difference between discomfort and torment.

—Larry Rosenberg,“When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Bites”

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Via Daily Dharma: Connecting with Our Power

What if we said that power is internal freedom, that power is the capacity for choice?

—Helen Tworkov, “Just Power”

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