Philosophy 04 (Jan 25 - Dec 26)

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Wisdom Over Power

If our spiritual work has come out of wisdom, not out of a need for power but out of a yearning for the Divine, then when the powers come, we just notice them, realizing they are going to take us on tangents, consume them and keep going.

- Ram Dass, “Karmuppance”

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Our Good Qualities

May our good qualities — those that we are developing and those that are well established — protect us.

May they be our contribution to the world.

- Pascal Auclair, “The Fourth Quality of the Heart”

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We Are Connected

As we realize how truly connected we are to others, our loneliness recedes, we feel lighter and more resilient and we move forward in our lives with a greater appreciation for our shared humanity.

- Mindy Newman

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The Realness of the Unseen

We have to let go of the belief that what we can see and touch and name, is more real and more relevant than what’s not visible.

- Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, “Signs of the Unseen”

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Experience for Yourself

Inextricably intertwined with the practice of not-knowing, is the primacy of direct experience.

“Don’t take my word for it,” the Buddha said, and also “Seek out your own salvation.”

- Noelle Oxenhandler, “Glass of Water, Bare Feet”

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Protect Your Mind

Protect yourself and your mind from too much negativity.

Not turning away from suffering, doesn’t mean wallowing in the horror of it all.

- Susan Moon, “Ten Practices to Change the World”

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Trusting Ourselves

When we invest in our internal framework, by trusting in who we are, we find the strength to endure, when the externals change.

- Deborah Eden Tull, “Navigating Change with Grace”

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Wise Compassion

The compassion that aids the awakening of wisdom — the view of reality — is a compassion that extends to all living beings.

- Karuna Cayton, “The Myth of Reality”

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Keep an Open Heart

We can keep our hearts open, by seeing that those who cause harm are also victims — caught in systems they cannot escape.

- Sister True Virtue, “Training the Heart”

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Our Non-Separate Relationship

We’re in a fundamentally non-separate relationship with at least 7 billion other humans plus all other planetary life, plus those yet to be born and whatever others inhabit all other realms, galaxies, universes.

- Martin Aylward, “Our Collective Body”