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Spiritual homesickness has been a constant in my life. It was not an everyday experience, but a predictable and always reoccurring desperation to find a sense of sacredness within me, not outside of me: my soul, my home, God in me. It was
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“Compassion is the feeling of empathy which the pain of one being of itself awakens in another; and the higher and more human the beings are, the more keenly attuned are they to re-echo the note of suffering which, like a voice from heaven, penetrates the heart.”
― Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
― Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
“Bless me into usefulness”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. If I do not exchange my happiness For the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression. The cost of silence is too high.”
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
― Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
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