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With practice, we can learn how to welcome beauty and receive pleasure wholeheartedly.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Not taking our pain personally is a profound shift away from our habitual way of regarding our life.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
woman in her mid-seventies, who offered me a superb piece of life wisdom. She said: “We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
We have to kill off any notion we have that there is something to attain, something to hold on to, something special we can become once and for all. Enlightenment is not a “thing” we “get” from practice. Anything we think we’ve gotten—even if it’s made of gold—can only get in the way. Only when there is nothing and nobody left to obstruct it will
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
I am mastering myself. Once I need nothing, I will have everything.
Taken from an Allen Watts talk and applied to myself
How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org