"Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life."

-- Hsing Yun

#Kindness Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or donâ€™t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. Youâ€™re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and itâ€™s destructive to a relationship.”
“Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.”
“If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.”
“We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction”
“Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.”
“That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.”
“If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.”

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