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All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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Climbing Helping Life Prioritise
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind.
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Death Mother Running
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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Different Faces Mind Names
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.
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Buddhist Death Mirrors
The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
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Cover Death Eyes Jhour Postpone Uncertain
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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Buddhist Lost Mind
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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Gratitude Intelligent Real
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our

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