The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
BO LOZOFFThe gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
More Bo Lozoff Quotes
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You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over.
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The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence.
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If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren’t mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them.
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We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
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Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
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Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
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Who can ever understand exactly why or how it comes down as it does? The bottom line is, here we are. Whatever, wherever we are, this is what we’ve got. It’s up to us whether we do it as easy time or hard time.
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Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
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We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
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Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
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Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
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I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one.
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So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.
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We merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are – as soon as we stop pretending we’re small or unholy.
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