Be now and forever our Mother, our advocate and our protector;

rule over us as our sovereign Lady,

keep us from falling,

but if we do fall,

help us to rise again without delay.

Show yourself as mother of God,

whom all sinners have been entrusted:

be our patroness

and theirs with your loving Son.

Jean-Joseph du Viex-Châtel

I am the last human heart,

imprisoned in the foul dungeon of man's dictates,

tied with chains of earthly authority,

dead and forgotten by laughing humanity

whose tongue is tied and

whose eyes are empty of visible tears.

-Kahlil Gibran

To me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,

for I am gentle and humble in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

- Matthew 11:28

The Second Noble Truth

The cause of suffering is wanting or craving.

The constant movement of wanting is what prevents us from accepting each moment as it is and finding peace in every moment.

- Guy Armstrong

You're a God damn fool if you think you'll live forever just because you won't fight.

Say nobody ever kills you- old age is no peach, either.

-Cowboy Hãvamãl

Give to the beggar, lend to the borrower.

-Jesus

Man has the choice of Karma or Christ.

- Emmet Fox

Imagine living your life without fear of expressing your dreams.

Imagine living your life without the fear of judging others.

Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others.

- Miguel Ruiz

The more of a dead-end it feels, the more it is an invitation to join in Christ's sufferings.

So the cruelly destructive and negative nature of suffering can be seen,

if only in a glass, very darkly,

as charged with positive and creative possibilities.

- Harry Williams

Anyone who has real love, the love for the Lord of Love, who is in all creatures, will in the end attain peace.

- Krishna

The charge behind tightening, behind the urge, behind this storyline or action is shenpa.

The usual translation is attachment, but this doesn't adequately express the meaning.

I think I've shenpa as “getting hooked”.

There's a tightening that rapidly spirals into mentally blaming another or wanting revenge or blaming oneself.

-Pema Chödrön

To understand basic spirituality, it is absolutely necessary to go along with the cynical attitude of questioning everything

- not necessarily in an intellectual, logical or metaphysical way, but experientially.

-Chögyam Trungpa

This world of dew

is only a world of dew-

and yet…oh and yet...

-Kobayashi Issa

“Why did you stop praising?”

“Because I've never heard anything back.”

“This longing you express is the return message.

The grief you cry out from

draws you toward union.”

-Rumi

Attract wisdom

with the sap of

weakness,

vulnerability,

transparency.

There's much sweetness

in these things.

Wisdom begins

when our quest

for perfection

ends.

-N. Wong

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