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Art And The Struggle To See
When we are running around after our cravings and false power, we are missing out on something that is crucial to our happiness: the experience of love. With the insight of impermanence, no-self, and interbeing, we have the opportunity to experience true love.
— Thich Nhat Hahn
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“Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beings…Any attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.”
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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“Soul waters run deep, often below the surface of consciousness. Dreams, writing, art, dance & other creative mediums are the “buckets” we drop into the unconscious to tap the aliveness swimming inside.”
~Donna May
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“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
― William Butler Yeats
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When you visualize yourself and your beloved in three hundred years’ time, you just feel so happy that you…
