Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
BO LOZOFFHuman life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
BO LOZOFFMeditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
BO LOZOFFThis understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.
BO LOZOFFSo 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.
BO LOZOFFWe pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
BO LOZOFFWe 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.
BO LOZOFFThe cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence.
BO LOZOFFThe gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
BO LOZOFFDo 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.
BO LOZOFFWe’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
BO LOZOFFYou 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.
BO LOZOFFI 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.
BO LOZOFFLife, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it’s a brilliant story, and it’s up to us how it will turn out in the end.
BO LOZOFFLittle by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
BO LOZOFFWho 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.
BO LOZOFFLittle by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
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