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Jeffrey May
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According to this very simple teaching, becoming immersed in these four pairs of opposites—pleasure and pain, loss and gain, fame and disgrace, and praise and blame—is what keeps us stuck in the pain of samsara.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”
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“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”
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Jeffrey’s 2025 Year in Books
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