A silent night does not mean an empty one.

It means a night spacious enough to hold grief and gratitude, fatigue and hope, without forcing them to perform.

-Kellie Schorr
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When people talk about “returning to ourselves,” it sounds simple, almost wholesome, until you try to touch the self they mean.
- George Cassidy Payne
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There are AI Buddhas who can share all of the teachings with you, but do they have Buddha-nature?

~ By Johnathon Lee

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No matter our lineage, language, practice, or path, there are sacred rhythms that tether us to each other.

~George Cassidy Payne

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I was on the point of abandoning Buddhism a few months ago.
I’d hit a brick wall.

-Tim Cooper

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Science opened the door to atheism, and atheism to egoism. That’s where we are.

~by Johnathon Lee

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The Space Between Breaths is a mystery, but not just any mystery.

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The experience of silence is presented as equivalent to the absence of thinking. But where, then, is the fruit of practice during daily life when noise and thinking are present?

-Angel Roberto Puente

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“I was on the playground when a three-year-old girl I have cared for before came up to me and said to me in her adorable little voice, “I like when you are here.”
-By Louis DeLauro

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