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May 21st
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“Decency means never being tired or made haggard by others. There’s always some...”
– Chögyam Trungpa, “The Big No” in Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, pages 136-137.
May 21st
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May 20th
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“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are.”
– Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life (via ashramof1)
May 20th
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“Wishing others to be happy doesn’t mean we give them everything they want,...”
– How to Free Your Mind: The Practice of Tara the Liberator by Thubten Chodron, pages 34-35.
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“Trust begins with trusting in yourself. When we talk about working with others,...”
– Chögyam Trungpa, “The Cosmic Sneeze” in Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, page 59.
May 19th
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“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...”
– Les Discrets, L’échappée (via misscreaturefeature)
May 19th
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My memoir, cont'd - Dear anons: I am not your...
I thought I turned anons off. I sure have now. Just to set the record straight: Stop trying to therapize me. I have a therapist. I don’t need a 19-year-old one who has therapized themselves on self-help literature and so now think they are qualified to counsel a 33-year-old with a Ph.D. I was reading self-help literature when you were a fetus. I am not writing this memoir for you. I am...
May 19th
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May 18th
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My my memoir cont'd - Too much conversational...
Sometimes I want things I don’t believe to be ethical for me to have, given the commitments I’ve made. Sex with other women. Food I know will do something horrible to my body. To retaliate against a perpetrator. To make them suffer as they have caused me to suffer. These are surface things, anymore. They are simply the norm in the constant, all-out war we call a society: people, lost...
May 18th
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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment, and happiness. Just because...”
– The Dalai Lama (via perfect)
May 17th
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“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
– Hafiz (via romanceplanet)
May 17th
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“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great...”
– Osho (via larmoyante)
May 17th
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“If you are generally irritable, even when your best friend visits, you can not...”
– Tenzin Gyatso, The fourteenth Dalai Lama (via head-kick)
May 17th
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“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense  (via stxxz)
May 17th
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“I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my...”
– Rachel Sontag, House Rules (via seabois)
May 16th
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“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is...”
– Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
May 15th
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“It must be obvious… that there is a contradiction in wanting to be...”
– Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
May 15th
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“Most of the pain you’re dealing with are really just thoughts.. ever think of...”
– Buddhist Bootcamp My most viral post ever. Don’t know why y’all dropped the source though. Thanks for the love! - DS
May 15th
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“The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those...”
– Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
May 15th
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“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to...”
– Ashtavakra Gita (via rebelsoulz)
May 15th
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My memoir, cont'd - The eternal return
Many thinkers and cultures have postulated an “eternal return,” or a self-referential and recurring loop which constitutes reality. Buddhism is no different, which postulates time existing only as an eternal now (and yes: what’s-his-face completely ripped off that concept from us, which is why you will never see me quoting him. Ever.). People get confused by this concept. More...
May 15th
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“What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the...”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel (via vertigoverb)
May 15th
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“One’s seeking and attaining Self in the heart is just like a woman searching for...”
– Ramana Maharshi Guru Vachaka Kovai (via ashramof1)
May 14th
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“I hope that people can appreciate their surroundings. Appreciate the autumn,...”
– Chögyam Trungpa, “Overcoming Physical Materialism” in Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, page 41
May 14th
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“The Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was perhaps the most mystical of all the Dalai...”
– From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on Tantra by Glenn H. Mullin, page 255.
May 14th
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