December 2011
Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
“You might say, “What a dreadful day,” without realizing that the cold, the wind,...”
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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10 Ways to Love Others →
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse “authenticity” with sharing...
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi
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Glimpse of the Day
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted, or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.
To talk of this nature of mind as skylike is, of course, only a metaphor that helps us to begin to imagine its...
“To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”
– John Templeton
“I exist as I am, that is enough—if no other in the world be aware I sit content,...”
– Walt Whitman
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☼ Transforming Sadness and Depression: Decide... →
There was a Sufi mystic who remained happy his whole life- no one had ever seen him unhappy- who was always laughing, who was laughter, whose whole being was a perfume of celebration.
In his old age, when he was dying- on his deathbed and still enjoying, laughing hilariously- a disciple asked, “You puzzle us. You are still laughing; how are you managing it?”
The old man said, “It is simple....
“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.”
– Horace Friess
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa
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“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...”
– Aldous Huxley
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an...”
– John Keats
“In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you...”
– Buddha
