Category: Quotes
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Love your neighbor as yourself.
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“For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Love, not in an idealized way(pleasure/expectation) but simply the openness of not hating, not blaming, not judging. (Roger on love) Not judging or blaming yourself. Love as the debunking of psychological identity. Not as a goal for someone to…
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you are trying too hard
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you are trying too hard “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice…
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About Love
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“Why does mankind resort to ugliness when it surely compounds his problem? Why doesn’t he try gentleness and tenderness when its effectiveness is so apparent? Here is why: he interprets something he must do or something someone should do for him. But Love is not a doing; it is a being. It is effortless, because…
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its own recognizance
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“… you can spend the time in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you.”
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Why do you run around
looking for the truth?—
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“Be still and there it is, in the mountain, in the pine, in [as] yourself.”
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that of yourself which you yet know not of
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‘And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.’ William Shakespeare