“On the spiritual path, there’s nothing to get, and everything to get rid of. Obviously, the first thing to let go of is trying to ‘get’ love, and instead to give it. That’s the secret of the spiritual path. How can we give ourselves? By not holding back. By not wanting for ourselves. If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.”
—Ayya Khema
April 2012
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“Oh thou who art trying to learn the marvel of love from the copybook of reason… I am very much afraid that you will never really see the point…”
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“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.”
—Eckhart Tolle
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit.”
—Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letters of Note: Forget your personal tragedy
"'I just want to make clear what this law is not about,' Roberts said. 'No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling, does it?'" →
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Arizona’s immigration law today. What’d we learn? Well for one thing, when it comes to SB 1070, the high court’s conservative justices are living in an alternate universe.
