Monday, October 23, 2017

the essential point

 ~ Milarepa
"Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachments and aversion. Practice good-heartedness towards all beings. Be compassionate and loving, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it is a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality."
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Sunday, October 22, 2017

just see right...

"Through excessive thinking, we have lost touch with reality. We confuse signs, words, numbers, symbols, and ideas with the real world. Most of us would rather have money than tangible wealth. To most of us, a great occasion is somehow spoiled unless photographed. To read about it the next day in the newspaper is oddly more fun for us than the original event. This is a disaster, for as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs (such as bank balances and contracts), we are destroying nature. We are so tied up in our minds, that we've lost our senses. Time to wake up." 
 ~Alan Watts
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

“yours are the heart, the hands, the feet that do the work of Love...”

"Christ has no body now but yours, 
no hands, no feet on earth but yours, 
yours are the eyes through which he looks 
with compassion on this world. 
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. 
 Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. 
Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
~ Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)
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