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“We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?”
― The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
― The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
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“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“The truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”
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“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”
― The Burning Secret and other stories
― The Burning Secret and other stories
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