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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.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
- Ram Dass -
When
we develop self-control and tolerance toward our difficult feelings and
impulses, instead of behaving thoughtlessly or reactively, we can
choose not to act at all.
Kimberly Brown, “What You’re Not Doing Matters”
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Our
ability to wish well impartially is connected to our ability to let go
of the fixed views that cause distress to arise in the mind.
Sylvia Boorstein, “The Whole of the Path”
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