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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #buddhism
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ↗
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗
There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound to me, amazing, the ramifications, the implications, the far-reaching impact that one’s beliefs could have on the world. It was actually mind-blowing for me. Figuratively speaking. Like, it was just, holy shit. Look at that. And nobody, hardly anybody sees it. They’re just ideas. Ideas. And yet, I’d believed them for so long, and still, was still shirking free of them. How was it that we believed in them, so readily, so easily? ↗
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When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. ↗
#insight #love #mindfulness #psychology #art
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. ↗
#inspirational #love #mindfulness #peace #art
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. ↗
