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But enlightenment, as the monk says, isn’t a point where everything stops and you’ve made it, forever surrounded by a halo of bliss. No, it is something alive, something that pushes you on every day, that calls you to return, whether you are a Daigyoman Ajari on Mount Hiei or a data-management assistant in an office in Hounslow
Adharanand Finn • The Way of the Runner
Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…
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Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Psychologically healthy adults come from a background of flexibility, not severity.
David Richo • How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
I reminded him of a story from an ancient Chinese Zen master, of the Buddha coming upon some people who had just been robbed while picnicking. They were racing around, enraged, asking him to help them. But Buddha asks, “Who would you rather find, the burglars or yourself?”
Tim nodded, and then said, “The burglars.”
“Same.”
— Anne Lamott, Somehow (33-3
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Martin E. P. Seligman • Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
This is our neuropsychological home base: to be calm, contented, and caring.