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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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The
difference between a request and a demand lies not in the sweetness of
your speech but in whether or not you subtly punish anyone who says no.
Katy Butler, “Say It Right”
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Like
happiness or peace or calm, paradise is not found by looking for it.
Instead, it comes upon us, or we put ourselves in the right place where
it can visit us.
Pico Iyer, “Let Life Come to You”
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The
beautiful thing about having fewer obsessions and ambitions—and just
sitting straight and watching the breathing—is that nothing will disturb
us. Things disturb us only when we have an aim.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, “Do Nothing”
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It’s one thing to be generous, it’s another to receive generosity. It’s an exchange of love.
- Ram Dass -