Mining Experience
We think we are done when we have written a good story, but the truth is, writing a good story is the beginning of writing a really good story.
Not all of us are writers, but all of us are storytellers. I’m writing this to give everyone permission to repeat yourself, to share your stories over and over with each other — because what you are really doing is mining the experience, something essential to our lives.
~ Laura Lentz
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I advise all practitioners who are interested in Buddhism not to become Buddhists immediately… It will not work. The reason is that these things do not correspond to the essence of Dharma practice: they are merely means used to accumulate merit.
What we really want is to develop a good heart — bodhicitta — to have perfect vision and to understand emptiness, wisdom.
~ KHANDRO LA
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… The spiritual geniuses of the ages and of the everyday simply don’t let despair have the last word, nor do they close their eyes to its pictures or deny the enormity of its facts. They say, ‘Yes, and …,’ and they wake up the next day, and the day after that, to live accordingly.
~ Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith
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