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The reactive self is a child throwing food. Calling the food-throwing “brave” is a mistake.
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— Joan Westenberg, Emotional regulation is a dying art

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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— Thomas Browne

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Who needs vacations when we have reality constantly unfolding into forms we have yet to experience? Miracles are sitting around me. They are not somewhere else. They never were. Isn’t it interesting? How I percieve helps construct what I percieve.
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— Bryan Wagner, A Tao of Perception

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We were born for this.

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All of it.

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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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— Anthony De Mello

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The book that started it all for me.

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I bought an old dog eared copy in a second hand book shop for a few pence nearly 40 years ago. I had no idea what it was. It changed my life. I managed to lose it somewhere along the way. Copies go for around £60 these days!

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There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation, not certainty.
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— Robert Saltzman, The Myth of Sisyphus

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For RSS eyes only: thisness.one

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There’s no understanding or explaining this, there is only being this.

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You can’t study to be what you already are.

\n\n

You don’t need to understand anything in order to breathe or beat your heart.

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Flowers fall even though we love them, and weeds grow even though we dislike them.
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— Dōgen Zenji

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You don’t solve a koan. It solves you.
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— Nothing and Everything Matters, So Act Accordingly, Michael McCaffrey

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Beyond optimism and pessimism — Viktor Frankl’s Yes To Life, The Marginalian.

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Who says my poems are poems? My poems are not poems. When you know that my poems are not poems, Then we can speak of poetry!
\n\n

— Ryōkan

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Everything happens automatically.

\n\n

Including you.

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At some point, the question stops being what you believe, and becomes whether any of it can survive a direct look.
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— Rob Matthews, When Certainty Hardens

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