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Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
when we stew in our own juices we can maintain ourselves as the artificial center of the universe. We love our drama. We like to complain and agonize and moan. “Isn’t it terrible! I’m so lonely! Nobody loves me.”
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
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We look for some way to conceal the basic fear that something is missing from our lives.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
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aspiration is always satisfying; it may not be pleasant, but it is always satisfying.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
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We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life; not in avoiding pain, but in being pain when it is necessary to do so. Too large an order? Too hard? On th
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it’s what you add on to these basic actions which is the superstructure.
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Memories are thoughts and nearly always selective and biased. We may completely forget the nice things our friend has done if there is one incident that we see as threatening.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
When I am just my own suffering where is the authority? The attention, the experiencing is the authority, and it is also the clarification of the action to be done.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
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if you think you’re beyond this, well, you can think you’re beyond this.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
When we can’t fulfill our ideals, we build guilt and depression.
from Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) by Charlotte J. Beck
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