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“Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.”

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover will be wonderful.  What you'll discover is yourself.
 ~Alan Alda

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“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.  But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”


  ~Thomas Szasz, 

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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba

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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” -
  –  Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”

Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Mother Teresa
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

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Adi Atman,

the full moon has lit up
the countryside
showing me
every slope and shallow

yet I cannot see
my hand
in front of my face


Ivan M. Granger

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“Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.”Anonymous

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“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”


Carl Jung

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Good to see you here Gia and welcome to the thread
Tai

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama

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Gia, Tai! Love to you both


“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.” 
~Mignon McLaughlin

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
~Elizabeth Drew

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“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man
far better than through mortal friends.”

~ Dawn Adams ~

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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. 
Audrey Hepburn

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All the water and drink you've consumed From beginningless time until now Has failed to satisfy your thirst or bring you contentment. Drink therefore of this stream Of enlightened mind, Fortunate Ones. 
~Milarepa

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Song of Milarepa From The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa. This one is called “The Twelve Meanings of Mind.”
I bow down at the feet of my Guru.
Oh good patrons! If you wish to realize the Essence of Mind,
You should practice the following teachings:
Faith, knowledge, and discipline,
These three are the Life Tree of Mind.
This is the tree you should plant and foster.
Non-attachment, non-clinging, and non-blindness,
These are the three shields of Mind;
They are light to wear, strong for defense,
And the shields you should seek.
Meditation, diligence, and perseverance,
These are the three horses of Mind;
They run fast and quickly flee!
If you look for horses, these are the right ones.
Self-awareness, self-illumination, and self-rapture,
These three are the fruits of Mind;
Sow the seeds, ripen the fruit,
Refine the fluid, and the essence emerges.
If you look for fruit, these are the fruit you should seek.
Sprung from yogic intuition,
This song of the Twelve Meanings of Mind is sung.
Inspired by your faith, continue with your practice, my good patrons!
tags technorati : Milarepa Yogi Saint Tibet Buddhism

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To the cotton clad Jetsun I bow. 

Thanks for this, Tai.

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my pleasure TG
Tai

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This is nice, I don't know that writer, but I will explore more.  And would love to post his material at my Dharma blog.

Not a lot of writers write fro the Not Doing, Being perspective.  But I write a number of posts from that perspective.  You might be interested The Star People

Thanks for adding something very powerful
Tony

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Hi Tony, will check out your link The Star People - thank you
Tai

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  ~Margaret Young

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Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett

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“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”
 
Leonard Cohen

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“Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
 
Thomas A. Edison 

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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development

Confucious

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“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.“ 


Mary Pickford

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That no true gain can be made by one man which is not made in the name of and for the sake of all humanity; that one man’s progress must be a little lifting of the burden of all others

C W Leadbeater

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“The whole mind of night that I know so well
Shimmering in its elaborate webs of infinite,
Almost divine irony.”

D St John

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I think matter is extremely alive and spiritual in the deepest sense.

Mary Daly

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“It is from cherishing oneself that one can gradually extend a similar attitude to others.”


Dalai Lama

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“True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.”

Dalai Lama

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“You never change anything by fighting the existing. To change something, build a new model and make the existing obsolete!” 


Buckminster Fuller

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“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”

Dalai Lama

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“UNcommon sense is the core of innovation.” 


Rick Beneteau

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

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“The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” 


~ His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

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“When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness.”

quote by the Dalai Lama

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“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” 


H. Jackson Brown 

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ah, brava, Gia!

“Never resist a kind impulse.” 


Pamela Dunn

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  ~Author Unknown

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“Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We are meant to shine, as children do. – From Return to Love.” 
 

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“You'll never stand on the mountaintop unless you've stood in the valley.” 


Rick Beneteau

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“Anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you”!

David Whyte - poet and storyteller

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Enough
 These few words are enough, if not these words,this breath…
If not this breath, this sitting
 This opening to the life we have refused
again and again until now. Until now.
In this moment of epiphany
This opening to the life we have refused 
again and again 
until NOW

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Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.
David Whyte

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“Those who know distances out to the outermost stars are astonished when they discover the magnificent space in their own heart”

Rainer Maria Rilke

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. 
Leo Tolstoy 

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Breath taking mio caro amico's!
big smile

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The Mountain Got Tired of Sitting