Other people’s behaviors, emotions, and thoughts will affect your state of mind so consciously choose who you spend your time with. Seek out virtuous people who embody kindness, goodness, honesty, compassion, and respect. - Timothy Burgin
People whose minds haven’t yet really reached a high level, when they meet with criticism, will usually keep it and brood over it. - Ajahn Lee
Living every moment with love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity is spiritual cultivation. Everyday life is the field of practice. - Tashi Nyima
We need to create circumstances conducive to our development. - Tulku Thondop
We live in a world peopled by those who are subject to the deepest forms of alienation from their own natural wisdom. - Joan Halifax
In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees.
Believe it or not, people believed the BBC report, forgetting it was reported on April 01st, or April Fools Day! Here are some quick and quirky facts about April Fools Day. • April Fools Day likely dates back to 1582 when France switched from the Julian calendar (April 01 was the beginning of the new year) to the Gregorian calendar (which made January 01 the new year) • Consequently, those who were slow to receive this news and continued to celebrate the new year on April 01st were called “April Fools” and made the object of jokes. • There is a record of the English playing practical jokes on each other beginning in 1700. By the 18th century, April Fools became a two day celebration in England. • Another public April Fools Day joke took place in 1996, when Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, tricked people by announcing it had purchases Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. Patience is the capacity to welcome difficulty when it comes, with a spirit of strength, endurance, forbearance, and dignity rather than fear, anxiety, and avoidance. - Norman Fischer
For birthdays we created a ritual of lighting three candles. Before lighting each candle, each person spoke about the past year and the present moment and made affirmations for the future year. This simple act made for a more meaningful ceremony than the usual cake and candles alone. - Lama Tsultrim Allione (A wife, mother of three, Tibetan Buddhist nun)
When we repeatedly utilize textual and mantra recitation and perform mudra to invoke specific aspects of our own Buddha Essence or Natural Perfection, we establish those beneficial formations in the mind. The (ritual) practices of textual recitation, mantra, and mudra overwrite and rewrite scripts swiftly and efficiently. - Tashi Nyima
A moment of joy in your heart is carried away by the wind. Realizing this, you’ll no longer be at the mercy of circumstance. - Linji Yixuan
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