Philosophy

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Growth Is in the Little Things

Every wholesome thought, every pure intention, every effort to train the mind, represents a potential for growth along the noble path.

- “Vision and Routine”

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Giving Up Is Just the Beginning

If something is not working out, do not hold on to it for too long just because you have already invested a lot of time and effort.

Knowing the right time to give up is a form of wisdom.

Giving up does not mean the end but the beginning of a new path.

- Haemin Sunim, “The Courage to Say I Can’t”

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Every Ending Is a Beginning

Every ending is a beginning and by focusing with so much fear on the endings that we face, we’re perhaps missing an openness to the idea that there could be some beginnings and they might be worth exploring.

- Mohsin Hamid, “Every Ending Is a Beginning”

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Enjoying Life’s Fullness

Life is so full, so touching, wondrous, sad, curious and bittersweet, that it’s almost unbearable at times.

As human beings we need to ask, Do we have to turn away from this fullness?

Can we enjoy the limitless realm of possibility? Can we live life as an open question?

- Elizabeth Mattis, “Open Stillness”

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Paying Attention Brings Gifts

Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting.

It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in others and of realizing that we’re not so awfully alone.

- Sharon Salzberg, “A More Complete Attention”

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Glimpsing Nonself

Glimpsing non-self clearly, even for one moment, puts ordinary truth in perspective.

When the conventional picture returns, we regard it differently.

What a relief when we no longer have to take our “selves” so seriously!

- Cynthia Thatcher, “Disconnect the Dots”

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Love for Others Starts Within 

Selfless help—helping others without an agenda—is the result of having helped ourselves.

We feel loving toward ourselves and therefore we feel loving toward others.

Over time, all those we used to feel separate from become more and more melted into our heart.

Pema Chödrön, “Unlimited Friendliness”

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Why is discipline so very important in our life?

Discipline is like the primordial life principle for every living being.

For all human beings, it is like their backbone.

Discipline means to follow certain rules and regulations implicitly.

These rules regulate the life of a person and lead them on the path of goodness.

Otherwise, the person will meet their downfall.

Without discipline, there can be no well-being.

Humanness cannot survive in the absence of rules and regulations. The entire human race will be wiped out if there is no discipline.

Discipline cannot be acquired from books, nor can it be taught by a teacher.

Discipline should become the habit in one’s day-to-day life in a natural manner.

It is essential to follow discipline every moment of one’s life from morning to evening.

It is necessary for every community, every society, every race, and every country.

Even in the field of politics, discipline is very necessary.

No society, nation, political system or race can exist without discipline.

It is discipline that brings about unity between person and person, person and society, and one society and the other. Therefore, discipline is the hallmark of human life.

- Divine Discourse, Jun 19, 1996.

Devotion must be tested in the crucible of Discipline and be directed along the lines of Duty.

Source: radiosai.org

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Repetition Brings in the New 

Repetition is what allows something brand new to occur.

Repetition, like the lapping of ripples against a rock, gently shifts the ground on which we tread and so alters our relationship to the things we experience.

- Anne C. Klein, “Revisiting Ritual”

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For Every Front There Is a Back

On the opposite side of every front, there is a back; on the opposite side of every back, there is a front.

One cannot exist without the other. Yet human beings invariably tend to see only the front and to assume that this is all that exists.

- Masahiro Mori, “Back Up and Take Another Look”