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It’s just people being people, the world being the world

Ajahn Brahm

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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Ability Everything Forgive Forgiveness Love Mother Much Peace Someone Try Yourself
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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Blissful Condition Fear Involve Life Love Place Powerful Spiritual Understand
Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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Happen Life While Worry
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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Anyone Can Like Love Sometimes
Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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Beautiful Deep Do Just Love Moment Nothing
Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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Circumstance Compassionate Good Longer Mindful Nurture Time
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful…the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
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Abandonment Alive Come Consciousness Future Mindful Nature Past Reveal
When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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Apart Fall Life Pass Remember Turn Unexpected Will
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Fall Good Grant Last Life Pass
Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Fault Fear Find Future
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Cool Heart Keep Mind Warm Weather
It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
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Celebrate Comunity Contentment Country Desire Feel Freedom Kind Peace People Religious Remarkable Very
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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Doing Five Instead Nothing Play Sense Understand World
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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Forgive Learn Mistake People Themselves Wise
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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Creed Democrats Desire Far Freedom Possible Protect Underlying
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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Bad Create Difficult Meditation Peace Right Strength Such Teacher Thing

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