Rafe Martin quotes
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“we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.”
-- Rafe MartinSource : Rafe Martin (2011). “Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life”, p.48, North Atlantic Books
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“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”
-- Rafe MartinSource : Rafe Martin (2011). “Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life”, p.43, North Atlantic Books
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“People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.”
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“One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.”
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“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Source : "Life In the Open Sea". Book by William M. Stephens (p. 21), 1972.
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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
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“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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