March 19, 2009

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A Walk Along the Nam Khan

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

-Buddha

March 18, 2008

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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

March 17, 2009

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True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Eckhart Tolle

March 16, 2009

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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer

March 15, 2009

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saiphone11People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

March 14, 2009

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A Course In Miracles

March 13, 2009

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Among the Ruins - Angkor Wat - Siem Reap - Cambodia

Among the Ruins - Angkor Wat - Siem Reap - Cambodia

A young monk asked the Master: ‘How can I ever get emancipated?’ The Master replied: ‘Who has ever put you in bondage?’

Advaita lesson

March 12, 2009

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Novice Monk Crossing the Mae Kong River - Luang Prabang, Laos

Novice Monk Crossing the Mae Kong River - Luang Prabang, Laos

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

Barack Obama

March 11, 2009

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Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

March 10, 2009

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Sai phone, Luang Prabang, Laos

Sai Phone, Novice Monk, Wat Aham, Luang Prabang, Laos

Inside everything
Where nothing else is:
He is there: the god.

In Téotl, Nahuatl Shaman