Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
AJAHN BRAHMThe selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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The ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.
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