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My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.
Sakyong Mipham
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The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
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When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
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What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.
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We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
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You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.
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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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Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.
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