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Books that change my life
(to be better)
 "When friends are overemphasized, enemies also come to be overemphasized. When you are born, you do not know anyone and no one knows you. Even though all of us equally want happiness and do not want suffering, you like the faces of some people and think, "These are my friends," and dislike the faces of others and think, "These are my enemies." You affix identities and nicknames to them and end up practicing the generation of desire for the former and the generation of hatred for the latter...." |  “Sometimes people ask you: "When is your birthday?" But you might ask yourself a more interesting question: "Before that day which is called my birthday, where was I?" Ask a cloud: "What is your date of birth? Before you were born, where were you?" If you ask the cloud, "How old are you? Can you give me your date of birth?" you can listen deeply and you may hear a reply. You can imagine the cloud being born. Before being born it was the water on the ocean's surface. Or it was in the river and... |  𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎, 𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚛, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐..𝙸𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢.. |  “Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.” |
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 "Understanding our own hurt allows us to see and understand the suffering of others. Looking without judgment, we can understand, and compassion is born. Transformation is possible..... Every life has its trials and tribulations. We can navigate them more skillfully when we don’t waste time and energy shooting ourselves with a second arrow - such as dwelling on how much greener the grass in our neighbor’s yard looks, compared to ours." |  “If your house is on fire, the most urgent thing to do is to go back and try to put out the fire, not to run after the person you believe to be the arsonist. If you run after the person you suspect has burned your house, your house will burn down while you are chasing him or her. That is not wise. You must go back and put out the fire. So when you are angry, if you continue to interact with or argue with the other person, if you try to punish her, you are acting exactly like someone who runs..." |  “When we become kinder to ourselves, we can become kinder to the world.” |  "..realise the impermanence and insubstantiality of both life and death. Everything changes constantly. Nothing stays the same. Rain might come after sunshine, but so does sunshine come after rain. In the realisation that people (their personalities, interests and attitudes) and life situations are not fixed and are constantly changing, it becomes possible to approach each moment with an open mind. One is then able to act and adapt to new situations without clinging to outdated and..." |
 “You become what you think about most.. But you also attract what you think about most. (John Assaraf) ” “Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source - you.” |  “As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.” “You remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered.” |  “Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. Before you can go high you must first go deep.” “All obstacles reveal what you really believe and who you really are. They introduce you to yourself.” |  "Where you focus your attention, you create strength and momentum." "Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best." |
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