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 BRAHMComplaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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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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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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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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