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Harvey Milk Quotes

“My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to recruit you.” Harvey Milk “I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, … Continue reading

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Like an Elephant in the Forest

Sitting MeditationWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the Ox that draws the cart. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. Continue reading

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Pema Chodron: Loving-Kindness

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. I have a couple of her books and admire her immensely. This last week she … Continue reading

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If by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good… Continue reading

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