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If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Lao Tzu (via thecalminside)

[yamanezu]

When very few things in your life gives you joy, your only real ambition is happiness. This does not always coincide with the pursuit of wealth, status, fame or love.

Garrett L. Sim

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There are Teachings Everywhere

‘The Dharma of the Buddha is not to be found in books. If you want to really see for yourself what the Buddha was talking about you don’t need to bother with books. Watch your own mind. Examine to see how feelings come and go, how thoughts come and go. Don’t be attached to anything, just be mindful of whatever is there is to see. This is the way to the truths of the Buddha. Be natural. Everything you do in your life here is a chance to practice. It is all Dharma. When you do your chores try to be mindful. If you are emptying a spittoon or cleaning a toilet don’t feel you are doing it as a favor for anyone else. There is Dharma in emptying spittoons. Don’t feel you are practicing only when sitting cross-legged. Some of you have complained that three is not enough time to meditate. Is there enough time to breathe? This is your meditation: mindfulness, naturalness in whatever you do.’

- Achaan Chaa, in Jack Kornfield’s Living Dharma.

[panatmansam]

By Linda Geddes / Pictures by Emma Leslie

Are you a man or a woman? The chances are you have a strong feeling either way; probably one that’s been with you since infancy and corresponds to your genitalia. But not necessarily. Some people have always believed they were born into the wrong gender; in others, these feelings didn’t develop until later life. Some may opt to surgically change their body to match their gender identity; others may occasionally cross-dress; or do nothing at all. 

Then there are people who feel neither masculine nor feminine, but somewhere in between.  It takes all sorts to make a world, they say, and this is certainly true of gender.But where do these innate feelings of male and femaleness come from? And to what extent do they shape the person we will eventually become?Debate around the origins of male and female behaviour has been raging for decades. 

In the 1970s, feminists hoping to create a more equal society dressed boys in dresses and encouraged little girls to play with trucks. Then, in the early ’90s, public interest shifted towards the apparent differences between the male and female brain – largely thanks to the international bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Today these debates continue, for example in the discussion around whether toy stores should segregate their wares into pink and blue stereotypes, but growing research into the biological underpinnings of trans-sexuality is also shedding new light on the matter.

[thezodiacvibes]

Read more on your sign’s behavior in love here

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[panatmansam]

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Laozi, (Fifth Century BCE) Chinese Taoist Master (via panatmansam)

[panatmansam]

The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn’t glitter like a jewel- but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

Laozi, (Fifth Century BCE) Chinese Taoist Master (via panatmansam)

[panatmansam]

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Laozi, (Fifth Century BCE) Chinese Taoist Master (via panatmansam)

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I don't need anyone in my life who can't see my worth.

Me

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In other words, people who don't need to follow the crowd to feel validated and/or need to be in a relationship so they don't have to be alone.