Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
AJAHN BRAHMOur modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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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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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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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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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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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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