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"When we use the word suffering in Buddhism, we mean the kind of suffering that can show us the way out."

"The wounds in our hearts become the object of our meditation. We show them to our doctor, and we show them to the Buddha, which means we show them to ourselves. Our suffering is us, and we need to treat it with kindness and nonviolence. "My dear suffering, I know you are there. I am here for you, and I will take care of you."

"It is impossible to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth when the core one's being and identity is shrouded in secrecy and lies. Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception. .. To know love we have to tell the truth to ourselves and to others."

"To Begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. ... Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up."

"Its a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain?"

"They found her on the front steps sitting wide-legged in a long-sleeved, long-skirted black dress. Her hair was wrapped in black too, and from a distance, all the could really see beneath her face was the bright orange she was peeling. She was all angles, he remembered later, knees mostly, and elbows. One foot pointed east and one pointed west."

The transformation of the idea of justice into the industry of human rights has been a conceptual coup in which NGOs have played a crucial part. The narrow focus of human rights enables an atrocity-based analysis in which the larger picture can be blocked out...for example ...the Israeli army and Hamas...The land grab by mining corporations and the history of the annexation of Palestinian land then become footnotes

"...Bill Gates's obsession with digital databases, numerical targets, and "scorecards of progress" as though it were a lack of information that is the cause of world hunger, and not colonialism, debt, and skewed profit-oriented corporate policy"

"So if that's what a monk is, she went on, rebirth as required, then what does it matter what a person wears? Hair, bare scalp, loincloth, robes! 'It doesn't matter!' she said. 'It doesn't matter, Mr. No Rank.' Instead, she and her husband, a man she'd known since she was quite young, opened a doughnut and pastry shop in Jingling."

"She dug in, worked like her meditation was a field, and stolidly plowed through. She had always known how to work. Not afraid of mistakes, she made a lot of them -- and by making them, progressed fast along a path that scares most of us in its first few steps. She didn't talk much at first. After a few years she began to roar."

"The new way to exist on the Earth may well be the ancient way of the steadfast lovers of this particular land."

Scientists have probed the Joycean chambers of the atom, read the memoirs of the cosmos virtually back to the moment of crowning, detangled the snarls of our DNA, and mapped the twitchy globe of Silly Putty we call our castle and our home. These are the fairy tales of science, tales, as one scientist put it, "that happen to be true".