"Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion."

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Tara Brach

#Compassion Quotes #Relaxation Quotes #Doorways Quotes

“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.”
“Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.”
“Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.”
“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”
“Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.”
“How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.”
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
“I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.”

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