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“Attempting to alleviate loneliness and unhappiness through technologically mediated interactions is simply a self-defeating approach. It’s an error akin to trying to quench thirst with brackish water. Just as consuming such water perpetuates the feeling of thirst, the more we depend on technology to address our spiritual and social needs, the more pronounced our sense of alienation and internal emptiness will become.”

“Q: What is nirvana and do many people attain it? Lama: When you develop your powers of concentration such that you can integrate your mind into single-pointed concentration, you will gradually diminish your ego’s emotional reactions until they disappear altogether. At that point, you transcend your ego and discover an everlasting, blissful, peaceful state of mind. That is what we call nirvana. Many people have attained this state and many more are well on their way to it.”

“Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me.”

“△ Message to Humanity A Poem by Alexander Martini You are not lost. Even if you have destroyed. Even if you no longer recognize yourself. Even if you believe it’s too late. If you pause now, if you stop now, if you find the courage to be human — then it can begin to heal. Then it can be good again. Not through forgetting. Not through escape. But through transformation. Through the choice to turn darkness into light. The universe hears you. It holds everything you were, are, and could become. And it does not wait for perfection. It waits for truth.”

“Some people were written in ink. They could not be erased. But I was pencil. And now, I’m the one holding the eraser.”

“Mais dans le cœur de quatre foyers, aux quatre coins de la Terre, un lien vient de se créer. Invisible. Indestructible. Quelque chose s’est réveillé de l’oubli. Quatre nouveaux-nés, au milieu d’un monde dévasté, respirent leur premier souffle. And yet, in the hearts of four homes, scattered to the ends of the Earth, a bond is born— unseen, unyielding. Something lost to time has stirred once more. Four newborns, cradled by a broken world, draw their first breath.”

“The world is what the individual makes it. A world of individuals is the intersubjective, collective mind field of all those individuals. Standing on the ground of freedom, we can see things afresh, enter relationships renewed and with a new purpose of sharing freedom and happiness. We can become poets and seers of reality. We can become great adepts, true individuals, agents of compassion. To live in a world is to be constantly creating that world. (p. 215)”

“Pico Iyer: “And at some point, I thought, well, I’ve been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I’ve spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there’s this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.”

“It’s the job of the soul to stretch out across the body of the desert and touch, without skin or fingers or nerves, the hidden creek that wets our knowledge of who we are. Who we are before and after. Who we are when we’re alone and a goddess looks into our eyes, looks into our dreams and says, yes. I see you clearly.”

“Developing humans has nothing to do with developing their skills. Developing humans is about getting them in connection with their primitiveness and what their Instinct guide them to what they should do in life. Afterwards any efforts to skill them will pay off immediately. We get humans to connect with their core primitiveness and instinct through readings, meditating, loving, awakening them, and maybe make them notice how life can enhance all.”

“Today, Jesus would be canceled. Called crazy. Too emotional. A threat. A man speaking of love in a world addicted to hate? Intolerable. Barabbas, on the other hand? He’d be trending. Verified. Launching a course: ‘How to Win Without a Conscience.”

“Awake my soul. Awake my spirit. Awake my desires. Awake my light. Awake my mind. Awake my hope. Awake my faith. Awake my love.”

“Awake U sleepers; Arise U prophets; and speak U servants of the LORD. Declare Ur future; Decree HIS wisdom; and live by the power of HIS Word! Ur load gets lighter; Ur day shines brighter when memory bows to HIS name. For in an instance; all ur resistance is melted like snow melts the rain. U R Kings and Priests; U R whole and free; & the day of dominion is here. Speak all that u see; till peace surrounds thee for HIS Kingdom like breath is so near.”

“With Every Breath We Take We face disappointment, heartbreak and more. “Those no it all,” people that walk in our door. How do we bend when the branches won’t break? With every breath we become closer to the Lord. So, these challenges in life are cast to the wind. We truly have faith before each day begins. This breath we take each day erases any doubt, we’re unfazed by situations that tear in our heart. Thank you, Lord, for every breath.”

“Our manifesting mission is a White Op, a term based on the military black op, or black operation, a clandestine plot usually involving highly trained government spies or mercenaries who infiltrate an adversary‘s position, behind enemy lines and unbeknownst to them. White Op, coined by my best friend Bunny, stands for what I see needing to happen on the planet: a group of well-intentioned, highly trained Bodhisattva warriors (appearing like ordinary folk), armed with the six paramitas and restrained by ethical vows, begin to infiltrate their relationships, social institutions, and industries across all sectors of society and culture. Ordinary Bodhisattvas infusing the world with sacred view and transforming one mind at a time from the inside out until a new paradigm based on wisdom and compassion has totally replaced materialism and nihilism. The White Op is in large part how I envision the work and intention of my colleagues and me at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; we aspire to fulfill it by offering a Buddhist-inspired contemplative psychotherapy training program, infused with the latest neuroscience, to therapists, health-care workers, educators, and savvy business leaders. (p. 225)”

“Sometimes people appear in your life unexpectedly like a gift from the Universe. You didn’t even know you needed them, or that you had called out silently to them. They appear when you needed them most, to lift you, educate you, wake you up, or shine a light on your path. They sprout the seed that was in you, and patiently watch that seed emerge from the soil. Sometimes it wears them out to water and fertilize you every single day as you grow. This is a delicate time, you as the plant, and they as the nurturer. You as the plant need them for your growth, and they as your nurturer, have to have the energy to believe in your growth. Then, one day you blossom, and awaken to the beauty around you and rejoice. The only thing you ask from them anymore, is to celebrate the flower they have brought to life, and to accept the riches you now will give to them.”

“Colour and light playing seriously on the canvas, making stunning pictures. Breathtaking, wondrous, silent, wordless signs, leading to your inner self. Feel. The painter has given you a key to your own universe. It brings you silence in the midst of your tumultuous world. The world is full of signposts, find them, take them in. Cherish them, breathe in the moment. Naked, vulnerable, fearless, silent. You are here to meet the I.”

“When your body is in seclusion your mind will be also. Give up idle gossip and speak less. If you hurt another's feelings, both of you create negative karma […] don't allow yourself to feel attached or hostile. Maintain a peaceful frame of mind. Give up angry and harsh words; instead speak with a smiling face.”