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This quotation brought to my mind the term "Recognition" that Leonard Laskow uses in the book Healing with Love. The fact that we can begin to heal our past hurts by calmly knowing what happened. Simply recognizing the truth.

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In each moment we have the potential to be present, or to miss it. If we miss the moment, we never get it back, and when it happened we were essentially dead. Along the journey of evolution, we seemed to picked up the habit of not living in the moment, spending time either in the past, as memories, or in the future, as planning.

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And it is often so hard to focus on the present...it is something that must be learned and then practiced.

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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind

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"He who wears fig leaves should not dance with hungry goats"

Jim Carey - In Living Colour doing a sketch on religious sects in court. For some reason that just cracks me up. I though some light humour would be nice!

Z

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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Gahndi

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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Nelson Mandela


Winter Wolf

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Your possessions possess you.

~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

lightbeing

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Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess?
You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is,
just as you are responsible for the planet.
As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution,
then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

~ Eckhart Tolle


Blessings
lightbeing

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If you want to make someone happy, practice compassion.
If you want to make yourself happy, practice compassion.


~ Dalai Lama

Namaste
lightbeing

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It is the enemy who can truely teach us to practice
the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

~ Dalai Lama


Namaste
lightbeing

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"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye"

Bill Hicks

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One must be very diligent in watching the ego's use of
the mask of spirituality to manoeuvre its self-serving
intentions-narcissism, financial, emotional, and
psychological fulfillment.

~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

lightbeing

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Confused by thoughts,
we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality.

- Hui - Neng

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When the mind is always moving, you travel
from one hell to the next hell.


- Bodhidharma

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If you use your mind to try and understand reality.
you will understand neither your mind nor reality.
If you try and understand reality without using your mind.
you will understand both your mind and reality.

- Bodhidharma


Namaste
lightbeing

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People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don’t realize is that
their own mind is the void.

- Huang Po

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I shall not fear, fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I shall face my fear.
I shall allow it to pass over me and through me.
When it is gone, only I shall remain.

-Frank Herbert

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart,
the less capable you are of loving in the present.



- Barbara De Angelis

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The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas:
the wish to return to earth in a human form,
and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

- Albert Einstein

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Attachment comes from a perception of lack - all comes from fear.

- Yvette Soler

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Being attached is what prevents us from seeing,

it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold