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For minds obsessed by compulsive thinking and grasping, you simplify your meditation practices to just two words - 'let go.'"
Ajahn Sumedho
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." --Jean-Paul Sartre
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
--Alice Walker
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
--Anais Nin
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
--Charles Dubois
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
--Epictetus
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
--Eric Hoffer
"Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."
--Heraklietos of Ephesos
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to."
--Marilyn Ferguson
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
--Thomas A. Kempis
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."
--Eric Hoffer
Ajahn Sumedho
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." --Jean-Paul Sartre
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
--Alice Walker
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
--Anais Nin
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
--Charles Dubois
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
--Epictetus
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
--Eric Hoffer
"Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."
--Heraklietos of Ephesos
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to."
--Marilyn Ferguson
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
--Thomas A. Kempis
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."
--Eric Hoffer