"If we can simple see,
with compassion
all that arises within us,

we dramatically increase
our chances of moving
away from suffering"

i like this quote a lot..came across it in a zen book i was reading..OoOo and another one i think i really true is this

"It is difficult for us to imagine that
someone can
understand what we are saying,
not agree with us,
have another opinion
and still love us."

i used 2 think that way quite sometime ago but awhile back i realised otherwise..

haha another part of the book i like is one where it compares the lives of people to plays..each of us are acting in our own play going by the guidelines given to us by the directors (i.e. our parents/caregivers etc) when we first start out (i.e. when we're kids) and we improvise on it ourselves as we go along..but the thing is what's supposedly 'right' in somebody's play may not necessarily be 'right' in another's because of different directing styles and the different choices we make as 'actors' in our lives..haha...

oh and this is another good one from the book..

"I don't need to justify my feelings nor do
I need to believe them.
I just need to be aware of them
and to accept and embrace them"

^-^

Entry @ 11:37 PM; Thursday, December 08, 2005

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