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.
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.
More Bo Lozoff Quotes
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We’re all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet.
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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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This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do.
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This 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.
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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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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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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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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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The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
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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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Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace…and care properly for this planet we all share.
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Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
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We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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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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