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People panic easily when faced with danger. Therefore, in facing emergencies, we must first clam ourselves down. By being cool-headed and steady, we will be able to take appropriate action to save ourselves and other. - Hsing Yun
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You are miserable because you are constrained by your own thoughts, like a silkworm making a cocoon around itself. If you let go of your thoughts, your problems will vanish like the silkworm moth that emerges from the cocoon and flies away. — Venerable Pomnyun Sunim
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If I were to become aware of my habitual thoughts, perceptions, and sensations, rather than being carried away by them, their power over me would begin to fade. I would experience their coming and going as nothing more than the natural function of the mind, in the same way that waves naturally ripple across the surface of a lake or ocean. - Mingyur Rinpoche
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Live your life fully. It doesn’t have to look like anybody else’s. - Gina Sharpe
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Don’t be persuaded to demonstrate yoga at parties. It is quite likely that as soon as your friends know you are a student they will want you to stand on your head.
Do not cooperate. Yoga is not a side show or a circus stunt for entertaining bystanders. - Indra Devi
Do not cooperate. Yoga is not a side show or a circus stunt for entertaining bystanders. - Indra Devi
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When you truly apologize for something you regret, any hurt the person felt may be completely dissipated by your apology. Expressing regret on your own initiative, before the other person has even let you know that he or she is hurt, is a way to refresh your relationship. - Chan Khong
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When we give our best effort in whatever we do, we will have no guilt or regret during self-reflection. - Hsing Yun
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The imperfections you’re tempted to fix might prove to be what make the work great. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was an architectural error, which builders further exacerbated by trying to fix. Now, hundreds of years later, it’s one of the most visited buildings in the world precisely because of this mistake. - Rick Rubin
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Loving kindness and compassion are not synonymous with merely turning the other cheek, of not cursing when cursed. When truth and justice are pushed aside and upright persons are slandered, being able to stand up for what is right is a form of courage and act of loving kindness and compassion.
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As water changes according to the soil through which it flows, so a person assimilates the character of his or her associates. - Tirukural 46