Awakening Thoughts
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The 4 noble truths leads to the 8 fold path which leads to the 4 noble truths which leads…
Constant spiraling, processional path.
Understanding anguish (dukkha), (as well as the totality of the human condition) leads to letting go of craving, which leads to realizing its cessation, which leads to cultivating the path. These are not four separate activities but four phases within the process of awakening. Understanding matures into letting go; letting go culminates in realization; realization impels cultivation.
Awakening to a way of being in the world which is continually surprising, new joys and crises. At each moment we are called upon according to values, vision, understanding, speech, action, livelihood."
- Stephen Batchelor
"The more certain you are, the less you know." - Young Kim
“It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.”
- Robert A. Cook
"Work is always easiest when it's done by others."
-Blair Moran
“You throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some of it sticks.”
- James Duvall
“Don't wait in ambush.”- Buddhist
“Up and Out! Don't look down.”- Mike Kennard
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now.”- Joan Baez
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese proverb
“The odds against us being here are so immense I treasure my life. I don't do bitter.”
- Michael Armstrong
