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it is possible for this third trimester to be a time of personal wholeness and integration; when what you do is an expression of who you deeply are. In the active years after fifty, you may become more visible in the world than ever before,
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“Actually, ownership is a thought process independent of the actual relationship that exists between us and objects in the world. Freeing ourselves from attachment to “ownership” frees us from our enslavement to objects.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“In meditation, we free ourselves from attachment to that conceptualization and experience the fundamental unity of the elements which comprise our being.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“In psychological terms, the Buddha’s first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“No matter what we do, he taught, we cannot sustain the illusion of our self-sufficiency. We are all subject to decay, old age, and death, to disappointment, loss, and disease.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“From the beginning this “self” does not exist, yet because we’re so firmly attached to the idea of it, we spend much of our lives defending or enlarging or satisfying this imaginary self. Meditation helps us to see its conceptual nature, to see that in reality it does not exist, that it is simply an idea, an extraneous projection onto what’s happening in the moment.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
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