Philosophy 05 (Aug 25 - Dec 26)

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What Is Wrong

What is “wrong” with us, is also what points us in the direction of liberation from it.

- Susan Piver, “The Enneagram as a Spiritual Path”

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Nature’s Details

As we see, hear, smell, taste and feel nature’s details, we become more present and compassion and love grow within us.

- Zachiah Murray, “Mindfulness in the Garden”

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Always Be Humble

Love, compassion, care — these things can provide many answers to the problems that pop up in our life.

You always need to be kind. You always need to be humble.

And most importantly, remember being humble is not being weak.

- Mahindasiri Thero, “How to Deal with Toxic People”

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Where Wisdom Resides

Wisdom, which helps us make reasonably good life choices, enabling us to live reasonably good lives, can’t be secret or esoteric.

It must reside in what is common and ordinary; otherwise, what hope would any of us have of living well?

- Rafe Martin, “The Highest Teaching”

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Inherent Goodness

We don’t renounce evil and practice the precepts to become good but rather to discover the inherent goodness that has always existed within us.

- Geoff Dawson, “Moral Philosophy and Zen”

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Mental Fabrications

We are compelled more by the dreams of things than the things themselves.

We crave and cling to mental fabrications.

Even the “I” that is seemingly propelled along by this compulsive flow, is an endless series of mental constructs.

- Andy Karr, “Between Neuro-Skepticism and Ultimate Liberation”

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The State of Not-Finding

The mind is not totally nonexistent or we wouldn’t be experiencing anything.

Yet arriving at the state of not-finding, helps us let go of our grasping to our perceived reality and many of our painful, contracted experiences and thought patterns.

- Anam Thubten, “Dzogchen Inquiry”

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Where We Are Broken

People don’t love us for being perfect.

Sometimes we forget that the places where we are broken, are the places where we shine with gold, where we hold the potential to connect deeply with other beings.

- Laura Burges, “Finding Our Way”

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Don’t Accept Less

When we can access the wisdom of the deepest feelings within our bodies, we will no longer be able to accept less from life, to make ourselves small in order to live.

- Jessica Angima, “Equipment for Living”

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Recognizing the Self

In a rapidly developing and hyper-connected global culture that often emphasizes individual achievement and scientific objectivity, recognizing that the “self” is just another mental construct can be transformative, helping cultivate an unbiased compassion.

- Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins and Zim Pickens, “From the Academy”