Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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.
You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.