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Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

Sakyong Mipham

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Sakyong Mipham
Age: 62
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What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.
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You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don’t go much further than that before extending yourself to others.
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Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.
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When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.
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Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.
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Every moment of our life is important.
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In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
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In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.
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If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society
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When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.
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Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.
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The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.
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Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.
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After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.
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If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.
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The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
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In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.
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