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“He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm.

He who rushes ahead

doesn’t go far.

He who tries to shine

dims his own light.

He who defines himself

can’t know who he really is.

He who has power over others can’t empower himself.

He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.”

Lao Tzu

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“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach (via movemequotes)

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“Do good, speak good, think good. Realize that every being we encounter is an enlightened being, disguised to show us the Way. Some show us how we should not be. Others as we should be.”

— Monja Coen (via om–namah-shivaya)

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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.”

— Bodhidharma (via om–namah-shivaya)

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“People who are fixated on separating life from work spend the majority of their lives not living. We need to find ways to bring mindfulness, space, and joy into all our activities, not just when we’re doing something that seems like play or like meditating. If we bring mindfulness into each part of our day, five minutes at a time, our imagined divide between life and work disappears, and every part of our day is time for ourselves.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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“In Plum Village, where many people from different religious backgrounds come to practice, it is not difficult to see that sometimes a Buddhist recognizes a Christian as being more Buddhist than another Buddhist. I see a Buddhist, but the way he understands Buddhism is quite different from the way I do. However, when I look at a Christian, I see that the way he understands Christianity and practices love and charity is closer to the way I practice them than this man who is called a Buddhist. The same thing is true in Christianity. From time to time, you feel that you are very far away from your Christian brother. You feel that the brother who practices in the Buddhist tradition is much closer to you as a Christian. So Buddhism is not Buddhism and Christianity is not Christianity. There are many forms of Buddhism and many ways of understanding Buddhism. There are many ways of understanding Christianity. Therefore, let us forget the idea that Christianity must be like this, and that Buddhism can only be like that.”

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“Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers” by Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj