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When we achieve a mind of gratitude and dedicate ourselves to helping others, we can practice generosity. We can be generous with our wealth, with ourselves, and with the dharma.

Master Sheng Yen

"Perhaps embracing the inherent incompleteness of what we know of the world is a form of hope, allowing us to remember that there’s always something left to unfold or be discovered…"

— Krista Tippett

We don’t practice devotion to get something in return. We practice it for its own sake, as a complete offering of our heart.

Oren Jay Sofer

The Daily Tejaniya
August 6, 2025

Be yourself. Don't pretend!

The times are urgent; let us slow down.

African Saying

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

— Nelson Mandela

To study the self—your thoughts, etc.—is to forget the self. And to forget the self is what? It’s to be enlightened by all things.

Charlotte Joko Beck

It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.

“Life can only be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”

-Kierkagaard

"The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth."

— Chief Seattle

With the support of tranquility, what is wise will often be obvious and simple. This is especially true in meditation; everyone has the ability to be wise in meditation, provided we are not too agitated to recognize it.

Gil Fronsdal

As practice expands from the personal to the collective, from the internal to the external, from the particular to the universal, it comes to embody the value of inclusion of all things, of all people, of all differences.

Larry Yang

A free body is a relaxed body, an open body. The foundation of all of our not knowing, of all our deeper, freer ways of knowing, is embodied presence.

Martin Aylward

Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house,
so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.

The Buddha--Dhammapada 1.13

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

— Unknown

We don’t know when love will arrive. We don’t know when it will fade. We can only know that the unexpected will happen, that certainty is a falsity, and that things will be impermanent regardless of how tightly we clench our fists around them.

Sunita Puri

When things become manifest
To the ardent meditating brahmin,
All one's doubts then vanish since one understands
Each thing along with its cause.

The Buddha--Udāna 1.1

The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

— Rumi

Emptiness is not a denial of existence but a subtler perspective that all phenomena are impermanent and interrelated.

Miranda Shaw, PhD

Where I come from, the words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may be truly fulfilled.

Tibetan prayer quoted by Jack Kornfield in A Path with Heart

The only place we can rest is in this very moment, living deeply and richly and fully right now, meeting each person and event with an open heart. This is where we have a chance to meet joy, to come home to our breath and our true nature.

Laura Burges

To avoid all evil,
to cultivate good,
and to purify one's mind --
this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

The Buddha--Dhammapada 14.183

This is a time for straying, for losing one’s way, for asking new questions. A sacred activism. A slowing down that knows enchantment is not in short supply.

Bayo Akomolafe

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

André Gide

While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more tightly tethered. The question’s not if we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather the unknown together.

Amanda Gorman

Darkness subverts the all-too-common inclination to determine (or overdetermine) reality to fit our own narrow understanding of things. It invites instead a way of seeing rooted in simplicity, humility, and awe.

—Douglas Christie

Darkness is a mentor of what it means to carry the light we ourselves have brought to blaze into the unknown parts of life so that others may also see and take hope.

—Joan Chittister