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Osho: A Buddha Will Be Misunderstood (1 of 2)

By Osho
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— 2009

"Yes, it is absolutely inevitable. It can't be otherwise. A buddha is bound to be misunderstood. If a buddha is not misunderstood then he is not a buddha at all."

08:55 min

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C. S. Lewis
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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Pema Chödrön
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The User’s Guide To Spiritual Teachers

The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers is a necessary book for anyone who has, or wants to have, a spiritual teacher—regardless of faith or tradition.

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Scott Edelstein
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Why Do We Walk On By?

It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

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Marc Ian Barasch
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Goldmining the Shadows

Goldmining the Shadows is Pixie Lighthorse’s fifth book, and companion to Boundaries & Protection. We all experience hurts, especially early in our lives, that cause us to adapt for protection and emotional survival: that create our unconscious “shadows.

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Pixie Lighthorse
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Emotion Coaching: Helping Kids Cope with Negative Feelings

Emotion coaching is the practice of talking with children about their feelings, and offering kids strategies for coping with emotionally difficult situations. The goal is to empathize, reassure, and teach. Does it make a difference? Yes.

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Gwen Dewar
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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Claire Cain Miller
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Anthony de Mello

Anthony DeMello was a teller of ancient stories whose stories rearranged the human landscape.

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Joan Chittister
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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

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Tara Brach
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