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reason, season or lifetime

Posted on 2021-12-012021-12-01 by Sameer Oza

People Come Into Your Life for A Reason, A Season Or A LifetimeBy Jean Dominique Martin People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is…

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tao te ching – favorite passages

Posted on 2019-04-172019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness All can know good as good only because there is evil. The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places people reject and so is like the Tao. Better…

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the poetry of zen – sam hamill & jp seaton

Posted on 2019-04-142019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Excellent compilation of Chinese and Japanese Zen poems. Some examples: I stand here and watch the people of this world: all against one and one against all, angry, arguing, plotting and scheming. Then one day, suddenly, they die. And each gets one plot of ground: four feet wide, six feet long. If you can scheme…

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hour of the wolf – paul lipton

Posted on 2019-04-142019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Paul is a retired attorney and lives in Boulder, CO. This is his first book. His second book – “these five breaths” talks about assessing relationships at the end of life. Hour of the wolf is about his mind howling in the darkness at 2 AM. His parents died young. As he approached his 50s…

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karma yoga – bhagvad gita

Posted on 2019-04-122019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is…

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you start dying slowly – martha medeiros

Posted on 2019-04-122019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

You start dying slowlyif you do not travel,if you do not read,If you do not listen to the sounds of life,If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowlyWhen you kill your self-esteem;When you do not let others help you. You start dying slowlyIf you become a slave of your habits,Walking everyday on the…

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ekla chalo re (walk alone) – rabindranath tagore

Posted on 2019-04-122019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

If they answer not to your call walk aloneIf they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,O thou unlucky one,Open your mind and speak out alone.If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,O thou unlucky one,Trample the thorns under thy tread,And along the blood-lined track travel alone.If they shut doors and…

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the best – lao tzu

Posted on 2019-04-122019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

The best, like water,Benefit all and do not compete.They dwell in lowly spots that everyone else scorns.Putting others before themselves,They find themselves in the foremost placeAnd come very near to The Tao.In their dwelling, they love the Earth;In their heart, they love what is deep;In personal relationships, they love kindness;In their words, they love truth.In…

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