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Intrusions Of Beauty
You do not have to wait until the flame has gone out to be reborn. I am reborn many times every day. Every moment is a moment of rebirth. My practice is to be reborn in such a way that my new forms of manifestation will bring light, freedom and happiness into the world. My practice is not to allow wrong actions to be reborn. If I have a cruel thought or if my words carry hatred in them, then those thoughts and words will be reborn. It will be difficult to catch them and pull them back. They are like a runaway horse. We should try not to allow our actions of body, speech and mind to take us in the direction of wrong action, wrong speech and wrong thinking.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, in ”No Death, No Fear”
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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
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Laudable
Tagore — In Sanskrit, this name (twice born) is also given to the person who submits for at least 12 years to the discipline of mastering the self and the noble thought, who emerges from it with simple needs, with a pure heart, and ready to take upon themselves all the responsibilities of life in a broad disinterested spirit. One estimates that this person is born again from the blind envelopment of the ego to the freedom of the life of the soul, that they have entered…
