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Dad, there's a point when
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Love is our birthright.
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.
— C. S. Lewis
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I am terrified of spring
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Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child. This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin. In great anger the parents went to the master. 
“Is that so?” was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else he needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth—the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket. The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologise at length, and to get the child back. Hakuin was willing.
In yielding the child, all he said was: “Is that so?”
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“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
– Anthony de Mello
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The sages have a beautiful concept for the thread of reality. One of the things that you will learn more and more as you become experienced in spiritual life is being able to maintain what the sages call continuousness -- this idea of the inner Guru, the Guru of action -- subtle beyond subtle, but a genuine spark of the ocean of consciousness in the form of the Guru -- that you must understand is within you as you.
Mark Griffin
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A Baba Yaga is inscrutable and so powerful that she does not owe allegiance to the devil, God, or even her storytellers… she is her own woman, a parthogenetic mother, and she decides on a case-by-case basis whether she will help or kill the people who come to her hut.
Jack Zipes
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At last the bottom fell out. No more water in the pail. No more moon in the water.
John Gould
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The Dharma Known Not Only To Buddhists or Humans
Buddhism is a weird thing to define, especially in the Zen vein. Breaking down the very term we might understand Buddhism to mean “the process” (-ism) of awakening (Buddhi). That said, the historical person that we call Buddha (Sidhartha Gautama) never defined his teachings as a self-referential -ism, rather he spoke of “Dharma,” that is “natural law” or the principles underpinning the natural world. In this way, Buddhism (Dharma), isn’t so much a religion contained to the insights of a singular salvific figure, rather, the Dharma is about aligning oneself with reality by means of paying profound attention to it, and through a cultivated, concentrated, and holistic awareness transcending, as much as is possible, the limitations of our individuality while embracing it in its proper place, and with proper perspective. The Dharmic way of life is one that finds affinity easily with people across time and space, not with a rigid set of supposedly uniquely true suppositions that demand adherence, but rather through a sense of gravity pertaining to the very act of surrendering our attention to this very moment, and an ensuing and implicit acceptance of what we come to find there. Indeed, there are numerous ways in which such surrendered attention can be rendered. It can take place in formal yogic methods such as sitting meditation, and through various liturgical forms (both those developed as uniquely Buddhistic in nature, and otherwise), alongside myriad other modes of condensing attention and combining it with intention to yield awareness derived wisdom of the nature of being. In my own practice I find that I’m not a Buddhist in any sense implying devotion to a singular set of practices or even devotional reverence to any particular historical figure or archetype. Rather I consider myself a Buddhist only in so much as the term is historically related to the practice of Dharma, which is a concept not limited to the Indic culture that gave rise to it, nor to the Sino influences that refined it, and which, by means of western inheritance and adoption through various traditions, has become as much a part of an emerging global lexicon as it is of its tongue and culture of genesis. The 13th century Japanese bastion of Dharma, Eihei Dogen once wrote: “To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.” Becoming enlightened by the myriad things, to be taught by reality itself, until the teaching and the teacher are realized as inseparable, simultaneously then progressing and abiding together until no concern for, or even awareness of this-or-that persists. This is the Dharma as I know it, and I believe, as it has been known to countless others throughout history (whatever that is) and certainly not just to Buddhists, or even humans.  ~Sunyananda
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"History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories -triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectically- has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance evolution as human beings" ~ Grace Lee Boggs
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my favorite relationship is the one between humans and dandelions. in childhood we instinctively blow on its little fuzzy seed carriers. we take the role of the wind, we help the dandelions in a crucial part of their lives, and in return we get a wish and a moment of happiness. this is how nature is meant to work. we are just as unaware of our goodness as the honey bees are, pollinating the flowers 
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"to abandon one's infantile fixations and adapt oneself to responsible adulthood is a severe trial and not at all what most people expect of the resolution of their complexes."
~ Jolande Jacobi
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It appears that we humans are the one creature on the planet that repeatedly forgets who we are. We lose presence, forget to lean in to life, and live half-hearted. We slip into modes of existence that are truly separate from the nature of who we are. Practice is designed to help us recall our vital essence. In fact, we could say that life is one continuous act of remembering, of gathering ourselves back together again and again, and living from "the deep well of things as they are."
~Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
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And human beings change and grow over time, so you're constantly engaging with new dynamics, new needs and wants. You may grow apart. Your relationship may transform into many different things as you continue to show up for the way things are in every moment.
no one wants to hear it but love is earned after the initial infatuation. commitment is something u both mutually agree to and then from there it’s work. it’s not work like it’s a chore it’s jus work like it takes effort. to get good at these things takes practice. it takes practice to learn to communicate better and it takes practice to learn to love each other in the ways u need to be loved.
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