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“We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.”

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Jack Kornfield is an American author and meditation teacher, born in 1945. His works mainly focus on Buddhist meditation and spiritual growth, which have won him a wide audience. more

“Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.”

World Successful One Thing Position Mines Okay Accomplish Uplifting

Author:Zoketsu Norman Fischer

“Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.”

Want Firsts Mean Real Universe Individual Difficult Knowing Perspective Habit Behavior Standing Universal Prejudice Come Up Appropriate Customs Ancestor

Author:Dainin Katagiri

“Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.”

Real Action Concepts Rewards Arise Compassionate Anticipation Doers

Author:Brad Warner

“Morality is a personal matter.”

Matter Morality Personal Matter

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.”

Ideas Suffering Ought

Book:Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

“There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.”

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

“Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.”

Trying Kind Problem Bigs Action Fall Belief Angry Deeds All Kinds Frustrated Stem Get Ahead Competitiveness

Book:24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana

Source: 24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana

“When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.”

Stars Morning Tree Flower Letting Go All Things Oaks Oak Tree

Book:The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen

Source: The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen

“If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.”

Ifs Knows Waiting Serious Praying Angel Scripture Wasting Your Time Visits You

Book:Approaching Zion

Source: Approaching Zion

“There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.”

Ifs Doe Two Government Father Given Party Balance Garden Constitution Independent Checks Department Dependent Spheres Adam Patriarchy Arbitrary Heed Matriarchy

Author:Hugh Nibley

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