Jason
@jasonslibrary
Jason
@jasonslibrary
“People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being,” said the old man, with a certain bitterness. “Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. But that’s the way it is.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
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“No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little,” he wrote.
Robert Frost
The whole world is inside each person, each being, each object. To know any part of the world deeply, intimately, is to know the whole.
Reminds me of how we often slow down before we reach the finish line in anticipation of finishing, and in doing so, finish short or make a mistake. “Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop after you’ve finished”
Actions taken in support of dharma change the self. The act of commitment itself calls forth an unseen dharma power.