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Each morning we should begin by examining out state of mind. Do we feel faith, kindness, compassion and love, or disturbing and negative emotions like anger, greed, clinging and envy? Once we see what's going on, we work at nurturing the positive states and discarding the negative ones. -Sonam Rinchen
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The attachment to the role of helper runs deep for most of us. If we’re not careful, it will imprison us and those we serve. Let’s face it: if I am going to be a helper, then somebody has to be helpless. - Frank Ostaseski
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Life is about constantly maintaining balance, and not getting stuck in rigid ideas of how life should be. - Tiffani Gyatso
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All of us have a tendency to be guided by impulses which have their source in the external world, since it is always easier to drift along with the tide of our impressions. - Taixu
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Kindness is the epitome of good manners. It also works in your favor, flooding your system with bio-chemicals that promote health and a sense of well-being. - Leslie Turnbull
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Mantras are codes used to access and activate aspects of our Buddha Nature.
- Tashi Nyima
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Part of being a human being is learning to cope with the gross, challenging parts of having a body. Being a person requires that we feel pain, sadness, heartache, tiredness, and a wealth of other emotions in our day-to-day lives. - Alex Kakuyo
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The Buddha taught that it is possible to overcome suffering by eliminating its causes. For example, by cultivating present moment awareness and letting go of these attachments such as craving, desire, ignorance, hatred, greed, and delusion, we can gradually find inner peace and contentment of our mental anguish and suffering. - Lama Aria Drolma
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Hatred is like a poison which you inject into your veins before injecting it into your enemy. It is like throwing cow dung at another: you dirty your hands first, before you dirty others. - K. Sri Dhammananda
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If we cling to a fixed view, however valid it may have been at the time, we turn it into a questionable and inaccurate opinion. Everything flows; everything changes. Nothing remains the same. - Tashi Nyima