Changing the direction of your life
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer
Craving is like a thief in your house. If you do not recognise it, it will steal your peace.
Ajahn Chah
Episode 25 – A is for Abandoning
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The power of friendliness
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
attributed to Sharon Salzberg
Kindness is not a passive sentimentality, but an active, courageous, and unconditional friendliness that is the foundation of our path to freedom.
Christina Feldman
Episode 26 – An appropriate response – befriending
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The second Anchor of Mindfulness – feeling our way to freedom
Tuning into raw experience
Feeling is one of those mental factors… every conscious experience has a feeling-tone, pleasant, painful or neutral.
Ven. Nyanaponika Thera
The cure for the pain is in the pain.
Rumi
Episode 27: The second Anchor of Mindfulness – feeling our way to freedom
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There are these five faculties: faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, wisdom.
~ Gotama (the Buddha)
The five faculties are interdependent: confidence inspires energy; energy supports mindfulness; mindfulness steadies concentration; concentration allows wisdom to arise; wisdom in turn strengthens confidence.
Bikkhu Bodhi
Episode 28 – The twin Islands of ‘Potential’ and ‘Strength’
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29 – Confidence as a Defence
In some ways, to be a person of faith is to be a person whose life is illuminated from within. There is a guiding light… It is trans-rational, yet it speaks with utter clarity, serving as our foundational, non-negotiable value or standard.
Stephen Batchelor
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is the willingness to take the next step, to see the unknown as an adventure, to launch a journey.
Sharon Salzberg
Episode 29: From faith to verified trust
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