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Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

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Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed--Ask for more strenght! ↗

— Shengyan

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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

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There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humanity #kindness #perfection #buddhism

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s). ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, It’s as if the whole world has been covered. ↗

— Śāntideva

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. ↗

— Saigyō

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I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perversely designed to ignore the questions that really mattered. As soon as I had some inkling of what 'philosophy' meant, I was puzzled as to why we were not taught it. And my skepticism about religion only grew as I failed to see what the vicars and priests I encountered gained from their faith. They struck me either as insincere, pious, and aloof or just bumblingly good-natured. (p. 10) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

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