To embody the Dharma, we have to let go of self deception and be honest with ourselves as well as the rest of the world. This level of honesty requires conscientous attention, discernment, emotional intelligence, self-knowledge, and sincere internal scrutiny. Your future, your karma, your Dharma rests on the thoughts and intentions you form today. So keep your eyes peeled...

Right now: Stop, take a few breaths, and turn down the volume of the incessant internal dialogue in your head. To wake up, you need to fully arrive just where you are, and reknow it, as if for the first time...

---Lama Surya Das, from "Awakening the Buddha Within"

Once in awhile it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way

they have been told to.

---Alan Keightley

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