Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
AJAHN BRAHMFear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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It’s just people being people, the world being 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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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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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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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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