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[The Buddha’s] patience is not the patience of a water buffalo who simply endures the work and punishments imposed on it. Instead, it’s the patience of a warrior who, despite wounds and setbacks, never abandons the desire to come out victorious.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Karma of Now” (via dharmarainbow)

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Let Them Sleep" “Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you’re not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep.

Rumi (via dharmarainbow)

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It can be surprising when you realise that everything your mind is trying to attain, the peace, the stillness, the presence, everything the mind, the meditator is trying to get to is actually already here, naturally occurring. Needing no maintenance at all.

- Adyashanti

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I don’t know where this came from but I NEEDED it

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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”

— Dale Carnegie

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Nina Simone’s Four Women: Aunt Sara by Candace Hunter

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It can be surprising when you realise that everything your mind is trying to attain, the peace, the stillness, the presence, everything the mind, the meditator is trying to get to is actually already here, naturally occurring. Needing no maintenance at all.

- Adyashanti

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“Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Ari Lennox - whipped cream acoustic

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Sade photographed by Matthew Rolston, Los Angeles, 1988.

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Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York’s 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. 

In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party’s nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, as well as the first woman to appear in a United States presidential debate.

In 2015, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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