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Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother -- every woman extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter.

The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

I will share my values with them, but when there is a choice to make on what to believe, I allow them the autonomy to be their own person.

Mind is beyond measure. Things given are beyond measure. Moreover, in giving, mind transforms the gift and the gift transforms the mind.

When we go beyond subjective and objective worlds, we come to the understanding of the oneness of everything, the oneness of subjectivity and objectivity, the oneness of inside and outside.

When you describe it, you put a limitation on it. That is, you stain the truth or put a mark on it. In the Heart Sutra it says, "no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no objects of mind."

You have a saying, "to kill two birds with one stone," but our way is to kill just one bird with one stone.

Every education is self-education, and as teachers we can only provide the environment for children's self-education. We have to provide the most favorable conditions where, through our agency, children can educate themselves according to their own destinies.

Every judgment that is not built on a sufficient foundation of gathered knowledge and experience of soul throws a stumbling block in the way of those who form it.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it."

"if you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

Our task as educators, if we wish to preserve that which we value, is to cultivate and nurture youthful vitality rather than promote premature aging. The key is to create school programs that value and protect childhood.

"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly... Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to old age." - Henry David Thoreau

There is no more reason now than there has ever been to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws, not simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will - human institutions, that have to face the test of legitimacy, and if they do not meet it, can be replaced by others that are more free and more just, as often in the past.

If the good doctor had only talked to Victor as a real person, instead of talking as a teacher trying to teach something, he might have had more success.

We could say that looking for alternatives is the only thing that keeps us from realizing that we're already in a sacred world.

We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there. It's better to take a straight look at all our hopes and fears. Then some kind of confidence in our basic sanity arises.

"In the great ocean the wave and the water can not be separated from each another; the wave is the water and the water is the wave."

"Empty-handed I entered the world, Barefoot I leave it. My coming, my going -- Two simple happenings that got entangled." - Kozan Ichigyo, 14th-century Zen Monk

Thriving means more than just getting bigger. It means optimal all-around development - physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. This can't happen when Mom and Dad are denying baby what he needs most: their dependable presence.

What goes out of a baby left to cry is TRUST: trust in his ability to communicate and trust in the responsiveness of his caregivers.

In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.

Your job is to get to know your baby, not get your baby to follow someone else's advice.

If you want to know who Buddha is, ask a three month old baby. But hurry, before she forgets.

When you plant a single tree, remember that you are planting an entire ecosystem.

Growing food organically and eating conscientiously are political acts that help to establish and ensure social, economic, and ecological justice.

Maybe it was I who had created my own turmoil.