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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes rest is the highest spiritual practice." Tom Yeomans
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Thought for the day....... “You should never underestimate the power of keeping your mind open to new information. If you're always receptive, you could gain just that piece of the puzzle you need, when you're least expecting it.” Bryan Dodge
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Thought for the day....... "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age." Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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9-1-22 Thought for the day....... "A man never speaks of himself without losing thereby. His self-accusations are always believed; his self-praise disbelieved." Michel de Montague
9-2-22 Thought for the day....... “Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-Men (1183-1260)
9-3-22 Thought for the day....... “We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.” Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
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Thought for the day....... “After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.” Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
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Thought for the day....... “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” Criss Jami, Killosophy
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Thought for the day....... “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
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Thought for the day....... “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” Brene Brown
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Thought for the day....... "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity." Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM (1874-1956)
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Thought for the day....... “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Thought for the day....... “Keep your mind open; challenge yourself before you challenge others.” Debasish Mri
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Thought for the day....... “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... “If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.” Hunter Lovins
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Thought for the day....... “Experiences that come and go are not an experience of the permanent state. The permanent state never comes and goes, and it is not experienced at one time but not at other.” Papaji
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Thought for the day....... “The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it.” Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
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Thought for the day....... “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. When you see in yourself the wish that the other person stop suffering, that is a sign of real love.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.” John Randolph Price
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Thought for the day....... “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... "All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life." Stig Johansson
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Thought for the day....... “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated" William James
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9-20-22 Thought for the day....... “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” Albert Camus
Thought for the day....... “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
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Thought for the day....... “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.” Joseph Goldstein
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Thought for the day....... “Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.” Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom
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Thought for the day....... “And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.”
Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom
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Thought for the day....... "Our greatest strength lies not in how much we differ from each other but in how much-how very much-we are the same." Eknath Easwaran, The Compassionate Universe
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Thought for the day....... “The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.” B.F. Skinner
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Thought for the day....... “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Thought for the day....... “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” Isaac Asimov
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." George Knell
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Thought for the day....... “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.” Shunryu Suzuki
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Thought for the day....... "Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it." Ken Keyes, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn’t mean we don’t run and jump and dance about. It means there’s no compulsiveness. We don’t overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.” Pema Chodran
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Thought for the day.......“At its best religion is the way humanity translates its deepest myths — the metaphors, parables, and stories that carry our greatest insights into the human struggle for justice, compassion, and wisdom — into rituals and behaviors supportive of caring community.” Rabbi Rami Shapiro
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Thought for the day....... “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “Face your embarrassment at being human, and you’ll uncover a deep well of passion and compassion. It’s a great power, your Open Secret. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.” Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
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Thought for the day....... “Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... "When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... “Harvest the meaning of life and pass it down to the next generation through stories.” Joan Borysenko
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Thought for the day....... “Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It's really all memory ... except for each passing moment." Eric Kandel (Neuroscientist, Columbia University)
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Thought for the day....... “When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.” Mooji
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10-25-22 Thought for the day....... “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” Rachel Naomi Remen
10-26-22 Thought for the day....... “Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” Naval Ravikant
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10-28-22 Thought for the day....... “You are not what you want to be. You are what you do daily.” Maxime Lagacé
10-29-22 Thought for the day....... “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.” Pema Chodran
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