that it is reasonable to take all the hurts and slights and confusion seriously and thrash around in them — you make things much worse. But appreciate the mess, know that it is a shared mess, and even have a sense of humour about it, and you can be much more forgiving and generous ...
When we look at our mind, however, we see that it’s not just spacious. There’s a luminous, clear, and creative energy that’s the source of our compassion and joy. There is also a quality of wakefulness, of all-encompassing awareness. This is the wisdom side of the wisdom of empti...
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September 22 –Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910), the Russian novelist and philosopher, regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time, gives us something important to reflect on this week: “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” September ...
Improvement is the son of discontent. Achievement is the progeny of effort. Success is the offspring of preparation. ~William Arthur Ward,Thoughts of a Christian Optimist, 1968 Humour and disillusionment are twin sisters. ~Stephen Leacock,The Garden of Folly, 1924 ...
He used to say that wine is a compound of humour and light; and Viviani has preserved one of his recipes—for wine of the best quality, that juices only should be taken which is pressed out by the mere weight of the heaped grapes of the ripest kind. ~John Joseph Fahie, Galileo: ...
It is 24-hours-a-day rebellion, not intermittent, showy, status-seeking public uproar. It is rebellion as a way of life.” — Robertson Davies "Prof. Robertson Davies: Courteous Conservative". Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989) 0 “Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions ...
When this is explained in negative terms: –It is not something to be apprehended; –Nor is it a non-existent void; –It is not some combination of these two, –Nor is it a third option that is neither. This is the view of the absence of any identifiable existence, the fact that ...
there are many Jews who choose to become Buddhists, some of whom refer to themselves as a “Jewbu.” There is a humour in it; it shows that our identities are not fixed like letters carved in stone. They have fluidity if we have the willingness to play with them and not to become ...