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Keep learning to recognize the difference between true equanimity and its false cousins, indifference and apathy. - Oren Jay Sofer
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A calm and detached mind always has a greater ability to achieve its goals. - David Frawley
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Finally, I had to not be afraid of the word God, which often comes up in recovery programs. I had to cultivate the humility to accept things that my intellectual pride might have rejected. For someone who had turned her will and her life over to the care of alcohol, it seemed a little hypocritical to think that I couldn’t get sober if I had to be in a room where people say that word. The word God simply points to a mystery that, to stay sober, I don’t need to define or resist. In Zen we say, “A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.” The word God is a finger pointing at something we can never fully comprehend with our limited human understanding. - Laura Burges
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Religion is for those who don’t want to go to hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there and don’t want to go back. - Vine Deloria
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Look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet; you just find your way between. - Nisargadatta
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Friends are precious because they guide each other towards goodness and lead one another away from error. - Hsing Yun
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Selfishness is a terrible burden for the entire world. You can see that all the problems, all the conflicts, are the result of selfishness. - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
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My body and my personality are ever-changing and will continue to change until I die. I shouldn’t cling to my identity as if it will save me, or prop me up, or bring me security or riches or anything else. I know from experience that this doesn’t work, and I also know that it’s impossible anyway. - Satya Robin
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Though you may not know her name, Dipa Ma has influenced your awareness of meditation. This remarkable lay woman - a young widow and single mother - emerged to become one of the world's leading teachers of meditation including many Westerners who's names are well known. The web site Buddhist Door Global published my spiritual profile of this amazing women. Read her story at this link:
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/dipa-ma-the-daughters-of-the-buddha-are-fearless/
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/dipa-ma-the-daughters-of-the-buddha-are-fearless/
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Though we may feel helpless individually, we are not powerless. We can bring more goodness and love into the world through our words, actions, and choices. - Oren Jay Sofer