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.
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.
More Bo Lozoff Quotes
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We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
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Life, 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.
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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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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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Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
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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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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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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 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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