Fifth Precept Sangha

Puzzlement and doubt… are the beginnings of mental freedom.

Joost Meerloo   [source: The Rape of the Mind (PDF)]

Wednesday, 29 January 2025
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Thursday, 30 January 2025
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Those who deem the worthless as valuable,
And see the valuable as worthless:
They do not attain the valuable;
They roam in the field of wrong thought.

Buddha   [source: Dhammapada 1.11]

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Train your mind to see good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Anonymous

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Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries… It points beyond boundaries altogether.

Ken Wilber [source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth]

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
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Thursday, 16 January 2025
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You have nothing to prove to anyone, no quota to meet, and no responsibility towards being what others think you should be. However, you do have a responsibility to yourself, to be yourself.

Dr BethAnne Kapansky Wright   [source: Small Pearls Big Wisdom: 365 Reflections on the Heart of Being Human]

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In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?

Jack Kornfield   [source: Buddha’s Little Instruction Book]

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To cultivate right speech, listen as you talk so that you hear, with your own ears, exactly what you say and how you say it.

~ Ken McLeod   [source: Wake Up To Your Life]

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Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see. 

– Christian Nestell Bovee   [source: Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies]

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Whatever a person frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of her mind.

~ Buddha   [source: Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking]

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
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Thursday, 19 December 2024
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No Matter what troubles have befallen you or what difficulties you have caused yourself or others, with love for yourself, you can change, grow, make amends and learn.

– Sharon Salzberg [source: Real Love]

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