I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database -
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When I get to heaven they will not ask me, “Why were you not Moses?” Instead they will ask “Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could come?” Susya, a Hasidic rabbi
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." Thich Nhat Hanh
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes." Proust
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." Confucius
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"But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new." Shunryu Suzuki
In 1970 I started to learn meditation with the Cambridge Buddhist Society. It was the year that Shunryu Suzuki's great book "Zen mind, beginner's mind" was published. I was deeply intrigued. So much of his writing was challenging:
In the words of Mary Oliver's beautiful poem "The summer day":
