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November 2009 
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Posted on Aug 4th, 2008
by 
tara
tara
I have no philosophy
osho
to do is to be socrates
to be is to do sartre
doo be doo.. sinatra
be naked in the splendour
of the truth of who you are
gangaji
it is what you love, not who loves you
that defines who you are
me
What makes art so human
is the effect it has on the spirit
that it just transcends everything.
bridget
I imagine yes to be the only living thing
e.e. cummings
I know I missed the boat called perfection
but my errors are portals of discovery
and there are times
when a little madness sets me free.
gael
to hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.
tao te ching
I find there is a little spot at the end of every breath
where no one can get to but me. It's pure rapture.
joe
Being kept in ignorance about our orgasmic natures iz abuse.
carla
Whether giving gratitude or receiving, it has to flow from the heart.
So it may be unsaid in silence, whispered or shouted,
written beautifully or awkwardly, it doesn't matter,
it is always felt from the heart.
mila
To our eyes flowers bloom and fade so quickly that we can't keep up with deadheading the garden but we're just the same as those flowers. We're slower-motion blossoms. You know the end part of American Beauty, where Lester remembers all the wondrous bits, that's how I feel every day.
Every single day something is so beautiful and tender and fragile and temporary that tears come and I fall in love and grieve all at once and that's the world, that's what life is like, really like, if we look at it – if we don't look away or pretend or get drunk or go shopping or numb ourselves as fast as possible because it's all just too much.
Every day is a celebration and everything is precious and amazing and it's all temporary and all of it hopefully breaks our hearts, and then maybe one day they break open and the whole world can just rush through us. I love being here so much.
jeannie - from heartbreak and joy
Every single day something is so beautiful and tender and fragile and temporary that tears come and I fall in love and grieve all at once and that's the world, that's what life is like, really like, if we look at it – if we don't look away or pretend or get drunk or go shopping or numb ourselves as fast as possible because it's all just too much.
Every day is a celebration and everything is precious and amazing and it's all temporary and all of it hopefully breaks our hearts, and then maybe one day they break open and the whole world can just rush through us. I love being here so much.
jeannie - from heartbreak and joy
Intelligent practice always deals with just one thing: the fear at the base of human existence, the fear that I am not. and of course I am not, but the last thing I want to know is that. I am impermanence itself in a rapidly changing human form that appears solid. I fear to see what I am: an ever-changing energy field. I don't want to be that. so good practice is about fear. fear takes the form of constantly thinking, speculating, analyzing, fantasizing. with all that activity we create a cloud to keep ourselves safe in make-believe practice.
true practice is not safe; it's anything but safe. but we don't like that so we obsess with our feverish efforts to achieve our version of the personal dream. such obsessive practice is itself just another cloud between ourselves & reality. the only thing that matters is seeing with an impersonal spotlight: seeing things as they really are. when the personal barrier drops away, why do we have to call it anything? we just live our lives. and when we die, we just die. no problem anywhere.
charlotte beck, everyday zen: love & work
charlotte beck, everyday zen: love & work
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