"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence."
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"The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go."
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"Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness."
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"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past."
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"There will never be a time when your life is not this moment."
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"I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer."
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"Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us."
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"Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda."
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
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"Take more time, cover less ground."
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"It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives."
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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world."
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"Awakening is natural,delusion is not"
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"If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid."
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"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet."
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"One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth."
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"When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal."
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"Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it."
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"Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness."
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