The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however,
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
Sometimes when my world has developed a crack, I’ve remembered that day, only fifty years ago.
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The Sabbath isn’t necessarily a day, but a state of mind, a quiet time, a pit stop on the racetrack of life.
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A moving story of how a mother’s perceptiveness and love helped her son begin his journey into the outside world.
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Having this permission of “No matter what, I’m going to get better and so I’m going to look back and cringe on my earlier work” – I think this is really freeing.
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After meeting Shams, Rumi was transformed from a bookish, sober scholar to an impassioned seeker of truth and love.
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After protests, a creative and good humoured solution was found…
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One day I will die, and perhaps someone very lovely will tenderly tuck me into this woolly cocoon…
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Focusing gets under habitual mental, emotional or psychological processes and brings us to a deeper level…
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Links to good books, videos downloadable e-books and other good resources for Awkening
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Mind is completely silent, we are attentive – clear consciousness, All meanings, boundaries disappear…
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Ilie Cioara describes the practice of “Self-knowing” using all-encompassing Attention.
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National Geographic photographer deploys time-lapse cameras in the Arctic to capture the world’s changing glaciers.
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“What would it be like to have a fresh mind and heart?”
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‘No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.’
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David Attenborough’s uplifting and beautiful view of nature…
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‘When we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.’ ~ Ajahn Chah
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Now I know why I’m here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
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I am inspired by those that are making a positive contribution to our world…..
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Well, much inspires me…especially…when we humans forgive each other.
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Solitude and Silence: “What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.”
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