Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
If we don't take care of each other, who will?. . . I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something. '
Yes, okay, it's cool to be quirky, maybe, on the side. Do some puzzles, make puzzles, whatever, learn how to ride a unicycle. That's cool when it's on the side and you have a plan. What happens when you remove the plan? What you're left with is a guy who likes to do anagrams. And doesn't have a job. . . Sweet, that's a catch.
Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.
Let each man have according to his deserts.