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Someone Wants To Make Tea For You And Kiss You
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not,
it will destroy you.
~ The Gospel of Thomas
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If folks can’t imagine you as human, all the policy in the world is irrelevant.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If you, with great diligence,
practiced vigilant awareness for just one month,
And during that time tried to recognize even the most subtle thought,
- not allowing your mind to get lost in illusions,
Then even in such a short time you would witness big changes.
Having gained personal experience of watching an illusory game,
- you would no longer be so upset with all the cruel sorrows.
~Garchen Rinpoche
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Asha [Greer] was fond of saying that one of the most important things we do at Lama, is to learn to pray each other’s prayers. Not in a kind of rote recitation, no, but to actually pray them–to feel them as our own prayers and become intimately familiar with the flavor of God expressed in and through them…
