Philosophy 02 (Nov 15 - Dec 24)

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Meet Your Own Attachments

When we have the courage to squarely meet what we hold on to, to acknowledge and experience it with each new encounter, then over time we find that the bondage of our holdings loosens.

- Diane Eshin Rizzetto, “Meeting Others as Strangers”

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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults

- Benjamin Franklin

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Attitude Matters

The attempt to look at your attitude — what you are feeling and thinking and the frame that holds it, is one of the routes to freedom.

- John Tarrant, “In the Wild Places”

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Social Mindfulness

What is required of us in the social world is nothing less than vigilant mindfulness.

- Charles Johnson

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The Nobility of the Path

Walking the path toward the complete ending of clinging and suffering, is the noblest thing a person can do.

It opens the fist of the mind and allows a person to walk in the world with gift-bestowing hands.

- Gil Fronsdal

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Devotion Fuels Faith

Devotion, whether to a tradition, a practice, a teacher or an ideal, is the fuel for faith.

- Ken McLeod, “Something from Nothing”

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You Are Not Your Thoughts
Here lies one of the greatest gifts of practice — the capacity not to take personally what you’ve always assumed to be yours — in fact, not only what you’ve assumed to be yours but what you’ve assumed to be YOU.

Remember, you are not your thoughts or the voice of the inner critic.

- Caverly Morgan, “Overcoming Negative Self-Talk” 

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Creating Space

Mental simplicity involves contentment, straightforwardness and some degree of trust, in the unfolding of life.

This frees up energy to do the relevant thinking that supports our life.

It creates space for things to unfold.

- Kim Allen, “The Value of Simplicity”

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Authenticity Never Yields Regret

When you give yourself fully to life — when you pour yourself into everything you do unreservedly— then there’s no room for regret.

- Taylor Plimpton, “Lessons From a (Mostly) Good Dog: #2, Relax”

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Love and Pain

Let me love this life as best as I can.

- Vidyamala Burch, “From Fighting to Flourishing”