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“We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.”
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
― The Pocket Pema Chodron
“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
― Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
“time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”
― Four Quartets
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”
― Four Quartets
“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
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“Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow.
This is the way the world ends.
from "The Hollow Man”
― The Complete Poems and Plays
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow.
This is the way the world ends.
from "The Hollow Man”
― The Complete Poems and Plays
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