Simple, to the point

February 11th, 2012

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It all just takes a little bit of time, it appears

February 9th, 2012

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All gains. Everywhere.

February 8th, 2012

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The world is so kind to me. So kind to me. So very kind to me.

The world. So kind. To me.

Every day is the perfect day to practice

February 7th, 2012

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External circumstances are not what draw us into suffering. Suffering is caused and permitted by an untamed mind. The appearance of self-defeating emotions in our minds leads us to faulty actions. The naturally pure mind is covered over by these emotions and troubling conceptions. The force of their deceit pushes us into faulty actions, which leads inevitably to suffering.

We need, with great awareness and care, to extinguish these problematic attitudes, the way gathering clouds dissolve back into the sphere of the sky. When our self-defeating attitudes, emotions, and conceptions cease, so will the harmful actions arising from them.

As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says, “When arising, arising within space itself; when dissolving, dissolving back into space.” We need to become familiar with the state of our own minds to understand how to dissolve ill-founded ideas and impulses back into the deeper sphere of reality. The sky was there before the clouds gathered, and it will be after they have gone. It is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can see.(p.22)

–from How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships by H.H. the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins

(Hat Tip to Lama Surya Das for the pointer)

Little by little

February 5th, 2012

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Success is failure after failure

without loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

A message for a couple of you out there

February 5th, 2012

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o  omsbihem:nulcc uu a aotmao m i etn rciusoeoasf.dallo ance cocyuecaerEcumh  r qa oeaei e dasahm    n osla

This side of the shore

January 31st, 2012

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The brilliant lessons I learned

back then

have washed away.

Now there’s room for more.

Insight breeds Service

January 16th, 2012

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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.


-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It bears repeating

January 13th, 2012

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Maya Angelou, at a book signing, circa 2008

Being strong and authentic and confident. Now, that’s beautiful.

Manual for being my friend

January 13th, 2012

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Do you miss me? …… Call me

Want to meet up? …… Invite me places

Want me to understand you? …… Open your heart to me

Want to know something about me? …… Ask me

Don’t like something? …… Please tell me

Have some advice for me? …… I want it

(I need all the help that I can get)

Have nice thoughts about me? …… Share them with me, in exquisite detail

Want/need something from me? ……. Ask for it

Love me? …… Let me know

(Don’t let anything or anyone stop you)

Thank you.