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(Save a surgeon from doing the job for you later. J/K)
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"Only love is big enough to hold all the pain of this world."
~ Sharon Salzberg
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"Ours is not a caravan of despair. Even if you have broken your vows a thousand times, it doesn't matter. Come, come yet again, come."
~ Rumi
every breath is a new opportunity to engage life in an open-hearted way, with empathy, with tenderness, kindness, wisdom and compassion.
~j️
"The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks don't see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
That's the story."
~ Jack Kerouac
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Son Undergoes His Third Open-Heart Surgery
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmels-son-undergoes-his-third-open-heart-surgery #JimmyKimmel #OpenHeart #Surgery
The Daily Beast · Jimmy Kimmel’s Son Undergoes His Third Open-Heart Surgery
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/09/even-the-small-things/
this can be our practice.
~j️
Enlightenment will be ours when we are able to care for others as much as we now care for ourselves.
~
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.
What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature, and its power is never diminished.
~
Deng Ming-Dao
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what we have is now, and now is always enough. this now, is the opportunity, the moment we have to engage our lives, to open our hearts and practice being present with our lives, and with all life around us.
each moment, only once.
~j️
“When you worship power,
compassion will look like a sin.”
~
Rev. Benjamin Cremer
a contemplation for our time…
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/03/a-contemplation-for-our-time/
~j️
The Metta Garden · a contemplation for our time…🌀 a contemplation for our time. such blindness and division. if our beliefs or ideology would have us only align with the suffering of some, while dismissing the suffering of others, then it falls …
life is a flowing interweaving of interdependence. life is relationship. we don’t exist as separate from one another, or apart from other life…it can be our practice to take a wider and deeper view of reality.
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/02/the-tapestry-of-life/
~j️
allowing for the good and beautiful in life, is also a practice.
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/05/01/allow-for-the-good-as-well/
~j️
Continued thread
#Pope #responds with '#openheart' to #Vatican #document #criticism from #Maltese #parents of #LGBTQ #children.
They argued #Vatican #declaration makes it more #difficult for #parents to #accompany #LGBTQ #children, fails to #recognize the #complexity of #issues around #gender and #sexuality and is #inconsistent with the #pope's own #approach of #pastoral #outreach
www.independent.com.mtPope responds with 'open heart' to Vatican document criticism from Maltese parents of LGBTQ children - The Malta Independent Pope Francis has written to a group of Maltese parents of LGBTQ persons, in response to their criticism of a recent Vatican document that condemned gender theory and gender-affirming
it is a brave thing to practice a love that includes all who suffer, standing alone if necessary. but bravery, like the love that calls forth such courage, is a practice.
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/30/it-is-a-brave-thing-to-choose-love/
~j️
authoritarianism lacks true power, so it depends on hostility and violence, and fosters despair.
we can choose differently.
*full post:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/27/living-with-friendliness-free-from-hatred/
~j️
dear Earth, our home…
“For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.”
~ Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha
(Dhammapada vs. 5)
*full text including additional verses and commentary:
https://themettagarden.com/2024/04/20/a-law-eternal/
~j️
tell me friend,
are you rooted?
where have you placed your roots?
how deep do they run?
don’t wait for the storm to arrive.
don’t wait for the ground to go missing beneath your feet.
time is of the essence!
let us find our footing & plant our roots deep in love which fuels our journey, our work, & our pursuit for what is true, just & healing.
~j️
Mature spirituality
is not based on
seeking perfection,
on achieving some
imaginary sense of purity.
It is based simply on
the capacity to let go
and to love, to open
the heart to all that is.
~
Jack Kornfield
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