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“Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.”
― Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

“Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“Emptiness doesn’t take anything away from a flower or a bee; rather, it’s exactly what allows them to be what they are. It doesn’t represent a lack in a negative sense at all; in fact, if emptiness expresses a lack of anything at all, it is a lack of boundaries, limits, and separation. Emptiness sustains reality. Paradoxically, it is this very lack of a primary essence, self, or ingredient that makes reality possible in the first place.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“Noticing how we try to avoid it is a way to get in touch with basic groundlessness. Refraining—not habitually acting out impulsively—has something to do with giving up entertainment mentality. Through refraining, we see that there’s something between the arising of the craving—or the aggression or the loneliness or whatever it might be—and whatever action we take as a result. There’s something there in us that we don’t want to experience, and we never do experience, because we’re so quick to act.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times