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On The Shadow
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
― Gérard de Nerval
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On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the border of Spain, I came into the world. Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born.
— THOMAS MERTON
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When we flee our shadow, we flee ourselves…And that shadow we fled with all our might doesn’t go away. It waits around the next bend to trip us up and remind us that it wants to be seen…it wants us to heal…our shadows aren’t the enemy. Our resistance is.
— Jeff Brown
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It’s very important to understand what creates samsara, also called the realm of confusion. Samsara does not arise from external circumstances. It’s not tied to any particular object in the world around us. What creates samsara is how the mind habitually clings to its misperceptions of reality.
~ Mingyur Rinpoche
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No cosmic power on earth ever destroyed ten million men in four years. But man’s psyche did it. And can do it again. I am afraid of one thing…
