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“To cultivate these diverse elements of our existence means to nurture them as we would a garden. Just as a garden needs to be protected, tended, and cared for, so do ethical integrity, focused awareness, and understanding. No matter how deep our insight into the empty and contingent nature of things, that alone will do little to cultivate these qualities. Each of these areas in life becomes a challenge, an injunction to act. There is no room for complacency, for they all bear a tag that declares: "Cultivate Me.”
― Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
― Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
“Nobody who understands the amount of pain and energy which go to the creation of new instruments of thought can feel anything but respect for the philosophy of the Middle Ages.”
― History in English Words
― History in English Words
“It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.”
― Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
― Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
“I am the sun
I am the sea
I am the one
By infinity
I am the spark
I am the light
I am the dark
And I am the night
I am Iran
I am Xerxes
I am Zal’s son
And I am a beast
I am God’s own
Emissary
Colour my heart
Red, white and green
I am Ferdowsi
I am Hafez
I am Saadi
Rolled all in one breath
Ibn Sina
Omar Khayyam
Look at me now
Bundled in one
I am the present
I am the past
I am the future
My presence will last
I am Ismail
My soul is unleashed
‘Till the day at least
The sun sets in the east”
― Letter 19
I am the sea
I am the one
By infinity
I am the spark
I am the light
I am the dark
And I am the night
I am Iran
I am Xerxes
I am Zal’s son
And I am a beast
I am God’s own
Emissary
Colour my heart
Red, white and green
I am Ferdowsi
I am Hafez
I am Saadi
Rolled all in one breath
Ibn Sina
Omar Khayyam
Look at me now
Bundled in one
I am the present
I am the past
I am the future
My presence will last
I am Ismail
My soul is unleashed
‘Till the day at least
The sun sets in the east”
― Letter 19
“One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with senses and feelings and thoughts and emotions and ideas. We get caught up in rumination and fantasy, isolating us from the world of colors, shapes, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations constantly bombarding our input sensors. To stop and pay attention to the moment is one way of snapping out of these mindscapes, and is a definition of meditation. This awareness is a process of deepening self-acceptance. Whatever it observes, it embraces. There is nothing unworthy of acceptance.”
― Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
― Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
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