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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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Generosity
keeps faith with our appreciation of each other. It stems from a
natural empathy with everything that, like us, has the courage to take a
shape in the world.
John Tarrant, “The Erotic Life of Emptiness”
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The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleepwalking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.
- Ram Dass -
When
we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and
what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just
ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering the universe.
Pema Chödrön, “Where Is Buddha?”
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With
each session of silence the fog lifts a bit more, until one day the ego
“I,” with its insistent look-at-me voice, drops away, revealing the
true self afloat in a vast blue sky.
Joan Duncan Oliver, “The Sound of Silence”
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We
can complacently watch life from the sidelines, or we can risk our
pride, our ideas, and whatever else we use to separate ourselves from
others and leap fully into our life.
Michael Wenger, “Entering the Lotus”
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