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"I believe that there is only one kind of love-real love-trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life."
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"Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire."
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"What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!"
"We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God."
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"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
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"When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life."
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"If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation."
"I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith."
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