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Open and Sensitive
When our mind is clean, communication with others has more clarity and we are less likely to hurt them.
Doing purification practice is not just about our personal benefit, but also about cleaning away clutter in lines of communication with others so that there are fewer misunderstandings, and we are actually able to understand what people are saying to us.
We are not afraid to really be present for genuine communication.
~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~
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Although there are many physical places one can go to “feel” her way back to this special home, the physical place itself is not home; it is only the vehicle that rocks the ego to sleep so that we can go the rest of the way by ourselves. The vehicles through and by which women reach home are many: music, art, forest, ocean spume, sunrise, solitude. These take us home to a nutritive inner world that has ideas, order, and sustenance all of its own.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity…
