"Love is an energy. We don't experience it in the abstract. We experience it through the medium of our relationships. And so it is that the infusion of love that is being asked for above all is an enriching of all our relationships, our relationships with our spouses and lovers, with our parents and children, with the people with whom we work, and even with our enemies and strangers." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love', quoted
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LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"When we are in touch with the highest spirit in ourselves, we too are a Buddha, filled with the Holy Spirit, and we become very tolerant, very open, very deep, and very understanding."
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"Real love never ends."
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"Each thing depends on all other things to be. That is interdependence. Nothing can be by itself alone. It has to inter-be with all other things."
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"Buddha nature as the seed of enlightenment is already in everyone's consciousness."
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"We must glean the best values of all [spiritual] traditions in order to give peace a chance."
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"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone."
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"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe."
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"The teaching of Jesus is His living body, and this living body of Christ manifests itself whenever and wherever His teaching is practiced."
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"The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."
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"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."
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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
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"You are interrelated to everyone and everything…your every act is linked with the whole of humankind and the whole cosmos."
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"When people appreciate each other as brothers and sisters and smile, the Holy Spirit is there."
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"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
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"When we look into and touch deeply the life and teaching of Jesus, we can penetrate the reality of God. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus."
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"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation."
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"There has never been a human being who is not alive with God's own life breath." Brother David Stendl-Rast, O.S.B., foreword
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"When you pray with all your heart, the Holy Spirit is in you, and as you continue to pray, the Holy Spirit continues in you. You do not need to do anything else."
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"All of us have the seed of the Holy Spirit in us, the capacity of healing, transforming, and loving."
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"Really hearing a bird sing or really seeing a blue sky, we touch the seed of the Holy Spirit within us."
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"I urge you to study and practice the best values of your religious tradition and to share them with young people in ways they can understand. If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out."
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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."
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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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"According to Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha is still alive….If you are attentive enough, you will be able to hear his teachings from the voice of a pebble, a leaf, or a cloud in the sky."
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