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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 04fdfe1 | When your pipeline is full - with business coming out of your ears - the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you'll already be at capacity | business-advice business-quotes business-success business-to-business buying buying-decision buying-decision-quote customers earn-the-right influence influence-quotes money negotiation sales sales-effectiveness sales-training salesmanship salespeople selling selling-skills selling-tips shopping trust | Chris Murray | |
| 22602d6 | I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers. | peace profound wisdom | Lama Surya Das | |
| e3edd05 | Tips and Pointers for Building a Spiritual Life from Scratch Pray Meditate Be aware / Stay awake Bow Practice yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax / Enjoy / Laugh / Play Create / Envision Let go / Forgive / Accept Walk / Exercise / Move Work / Serve / Contribute Listen / Learn / Inquire Consider / Reflect Cultivate oneself / Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration O.. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 7130103 | We have to know about the world around us: whom and what we're voting for and how best to address the vital social, political, and economic issues facing our communities, our nation, and our planet. No one person can do it all, yet no one person is exempt from participating. We need and depend upon each other. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 0e77e8e | Everything is available in the natural state, | Lama Surya Das | ||
| ba9b5ee | Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA | Lama Surya Das | ||
| eba3e70 | Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. RALPH WALDO EMERSON | Lama Surya Das | ||
| b5d1549 | To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance. | buddha-nature buddhism mindfulness motivation | Lama Surya Das | |
| 482e5ec | was a female Palestinian suicide bomber clutching a rifle in one hand and her little son in the other. This, it seemed, was the state's only vision of gender equality. Ahmadinejad instituted separate elevators for men and women in government buildings, and he fired swaths of municipal workers who were not religious or devoted enough to his ideology. Tehran | Shirin Ebadi | ||
| ae54f8d | We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for | Shirin Ebadi | ||
| d3bd557 |
Shirin Ebadi, premio Nobel per la Pace, aderendo a Science for Peace, ha scritto: < |
Umberto Veronesi | ||
| 66764de | Mark Nepo calls "experience greed"--namely, an insidious grasping not so much for material possessions but rather for a seemingly benign cacophony of socially active networks, service opportunities, ecological adventures, community activities, helpful organizations, sacred gatherings, and spiritual experiences." | Wayne Muller | ||
| d5d7256 | Perhaps one of the hardest remedies to accept for our pain of becoming is that wherever we are in our path--no matter how flawed or incomplete--is a blossoming unto itself. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 8a6d76b | When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle. | Mark Nepo | ||
| a38afb5 | He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c119490 | When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 7c12a7c | We often mistake the journey of healing as one that covers over a wound. But as wounds need air and light to knit and heal, our pain and sorrow need to be brought out into the open so we can be healed by life | Mark Nepo | ||
| 561062a | Just as a vine or shrub--no matter how often it is cut back--will keep growing to the light, the human heart--no matter how often it is cut--can reassert its impulse to love. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 2b226ee | We are the stage and all the players. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9590085 | Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there's the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 8ce8061 | I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching. | Mark Nepo | ||
| c3104a6 | Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ | Mark Nepo | ||
| 6619eae | The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. | Mark Nepo | ||
| bb65c3b | FEBRUARY 16 Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we are reminded of our poor little toe. Our vi.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 171fca6 | Weakness Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable. --MELODY BEATTIE This is a prayer for the ages. In fact, it helps to define weakness, in spiritual terms, as any habit of mind or heart that prevents us from seeing things exactly as they are, or in their entirety, or with our entire capacity to feel. These are the blindnesses that continually keep us from Truth, Oneness, and Compassi.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 6d36495 | The eye can see what we have in common or focus on what keeps us apart. And the heart can feel what joins us with everything or replay its many cuts. And the tongue can praise the wind or warn against the storm, can praise the sea or dread the flood. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9513de3 | Integrity Integrity is the ability to listen to a place inside oneself that doesn't change, even though the life that carries it may change. --RABBI JONATHAN OMER-MAN Much of our journey throughout this book has been about discovering that place inside and cultivating the ability to listen to it, while having compassion for the life that carries it. It moves me to share the story of a troubled man who, exhausted from his suffering and confu.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| b307ffe | Whatever is held and listened to will show us where it lives in the world and in us. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 3f4799a | over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4f5140c | Fearful people do not want to sit with broken people because they don't want to be slowed down - don't want to look at what is broken in themselves... When we dare to hold those forced to the ground, dare to hold them close, the truth of holding and listening sings & we are carried into the wisdom of broken bones and how things heal. There are the quiet braves we all need: the courage to wait & watch with all of who we are, the courage to .. | Mark Nepo | ||
| af623bb | In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. --BUDDHA | Mark Nepo | ||
| 592a0b6 | What is most healing about bearing witness to things exactly as they are, including my own part in my pain, is that when the voice of the pain fits the pain, there is no room for distortion or illusion. In this way, truth becomes a clean bandage that heals, keeping dirt out of the wound. To voice things as they are is the nearest medicine. | Mark Nepo | ||
| e447a50 | being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 537f197 | COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do. Under the want to problem-solve is the need to being-solve. Often, with full being the problem goes away. The seed being-solves its darkness by blossoming. The heart being-solves its loneliness by loving whatever it meets. The tea being-solves the water by becoming tea. | Mark Nepo | ||
| efc97ed | There is a gravity of spirit that pulls the essence of who we are into being. Our job, like all our sister creatures, is to find the abundance of air and water and light, and to unfold what is already within us. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 77a79b7 | At the Pace of What Is Real Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. --SENG-TS'AN Like most people I know, I struggle with taking too much on, with doing too many things, with moving too fast, with overcommitting, with overplanning. I've learned that I must move, quite simply, at the pace of what is real. While this pace may vary, life always seems vacant and diminished when I accelerate beyond my capacity .. | Mark Nepo | ||
| b3c4b55 | the work of prayer, when we feel least like praying, is neither to inflate or deflate the world or ourselves, but to restore our connection to the powerful currents of life. | Mark Nepo | ||
| acf7e58 | If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 9b9fffb | Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole of what is not. This is an ancient challenge. As the Sufi poet Ghalib said centuries ago, "Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not. Hearing what is can make you wise; hearing what is not can drive you mad." | Mark Nepo | ||
| e3d8b14 | Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living of our days, and whether we like it or not, whether we choose to participate or not, we will, in time, every one of us, wear the deeper part of who we are as a new skin. | Mark Nepo | ||
| e3772d4 | I was born with the ability to see in metaphor. | experience listen listening metaphor seeing writing | Mark Nepo | |
| 995a172 | there are countless stories of people whose lives truly find their meaning after events force them to give up careers that they have been devoted to. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 23e566d | The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle. | Mark Nepo | ||
| e291450 | For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation. | Mark Nepo |