"Love yourself and be awake - today, tomorrow, always.
First establish yourself in the way,then teach others, and so defeat sorrow.
To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing -straighten yourself.
You are the only master. Who else?
Subdue yourself, and discover your master."

(via purplebuddhaproject)

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"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other."

"According to Buddhism, the antidote for aggression is patience. Patience is not based on gritting our teeth and stubbornly waiting for the day when all this will somehow be over. It is more about softening our hard attitude and loosening our tight agenda whenever we notice them."

David Nichtern (via cazham)

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"…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."

 Robert M. Pirsig (via purplebuddhaproject)

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