The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
The moment is the sole reality.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.
Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library
We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.
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