"We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering."

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Tara Brach

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .”
“We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of ours. The Doctor of souls, however, wishing to root out the soul's excuses from the heart, tells us to leave our gift and to be reconciled not only if we happen to be upset by our brother, but also if he is upset by us, whether justly or unjustly; only when we have healed the breach through our apology should we offer our gift.”
“It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.”
“The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.”
“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”
“The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.”
“The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.”
“Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.”

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