Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
AJAHN BRAHMIf you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
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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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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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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
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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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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you.
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