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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

~ Lao Tzu
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

~Bernice Johnson Reagon
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately."

~ Zen Master Dogen quoted in Enlightenment Unfolds edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Gratitude | Alphabet Practices Multipages | Practices | Spirituality & Practice
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"The fact that you're struggling doesn't make you a burden. It doesn't make you unlovable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn't make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren't always easy to be around - and that's okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time the time."

~ Daniell Koepke

https://tinybuddha.com/category/fun-and-inspiring/
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that we need to be passive, to allow others to abuse us, to smile and let anyone do what they want with us. Yet this is not what is meant by compassion. Quite the contrary. Compassion is not at all weak. It is the strength that arises out of seeing the true nature of suffering in the world. Compassion allows us to bear witness to that suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, and to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal. To develop this mind state of compassion is to learn to live, as the Buddha put it, with sympathy for all living beings, without exception."

~ Sharon Salzberg

Quotations on: Compassion, Loving-kindness
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."

~ Alan Watts

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
I wish you humor and a twinkle in the eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.
I wish you peace--in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner of the heart where truth is kept.
I wish you faith--to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you--except perhaps love--to make all the rest worthwhile.

Robert A. Ward
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can reliably determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out."

~ John Marks Templeton
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.”

~ Kristin Neff
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference."

~ Dalai Lama
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"True love has nothing to do with loving or being loved. It has to do with how much compassion and understanding you have when you have fear, hate, guilt or shame in you, are you willing to forgive it, to see it for what it is? The world cannot appear unless it has opposites. That which is all-encompassing has no opposite but it contains all opposites."

~ Burt Harding
 
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