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Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 02, 2026 11:50AM

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Overtakelessness: Poems

by Daniel Moysaenko

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Jun 13, 2026 04:06PM

“When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?”
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

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“But the purpose of studying Buddhism is to study ourselves and to forget ourselves. When we forget ourselves, we actually are the true activity of the big existence, or reality itself.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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“Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.”
― Byron Katie, Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie

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“There’s nothing that does not grow light Through habit and familiarity. Putting up with little cares I’ll train myself to bear with great adversity!”
― Śāntideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

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“Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is called “mind-only,” or “essence of mind,” or “big mind.” After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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