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Asking “Does it matter?” and working with payu is a gentle, but effective, method for working with our karma and gradually transforming our mind and its habits. If we get the hang of this approach, we will find ourselves enjoying our lives
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“I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.”
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“Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room

“We live on, as long as there are people to live on in.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks

“I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out.”
― A Fine and Private Place
― A Fine and Private Place

“And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. —The Way of the Bodhisattva, v. 10.55”
― Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action
― Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action

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