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Our Very Own Song
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us.. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.
~John Muir
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CR Lama told me that the best practitioners of dharma are somewhat simple and stupid. Their minds are not busy all the time.
They don’t have a sense of mastery, or feel that they have to be in charge, and so they just do the practice. We can be too smart for our own good.
~ James Low
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In the end, no one did anything to you. You have done it to yourself through others…
When you don’t have much you want, love the little you have.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms…
~ Viktor E. Frankl
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A monk asked a Zen master how long it would take him to achieve enlightenment. The master said, “Ten…
