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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#enlightenment #meditation #mind #spirituality #zen

I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of the moth. ↗

— فرید الدین عطار

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He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride ↗

— Edward Monkton

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We live thinking I am right, I am wise. Herein lies the cause of human delusion. ↗

— Ko Kamei

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The object of your desire is not an object. ↗

— Jack Gardner

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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate. ↗

— Ajahn Chah

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Karma, continuing the Screw Dez kick it seemed to be on lately... ↗

— Jus Accardo

#dez #karma

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It *is*--is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement. To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody its whole weight and importance in your earing, as the one who has been called to undertake it. To give to people, works, poetry, art, what the self can contribute, and to take, simply and freely, what belongs to it by reason of its identity. Praise and blame, the winds of success and adversity, blow over such a life without leaving a trace or upsetting its balance. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#interbeing #self #zen #art

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#citizen #gap #measure #person #public