Choosing Our Attitude

"[Victor] Frankl wrote, 'We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.  They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms----to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.' "----The Wise Heart----Jack Kornfield

Our Fundamental Nobility.

"Buddhist teachings help us to face our individual suffering, from shame and depression to anxiety and grief. They address the collective suffering of the world and help us to work with the source of this sorrow: the forces of greed, hatred, and delusion in the human psyche. While tending to our suffering is critical, this does not eclipse our fundamental nobility."---The Wise Heart--Jack Kornfield

Believe in Our Goodness.

" Robert Johnson, the noted Jungian analyst, acknowledges how difficult it is for many of us to believe in our own goodness."---The Wise Heart--Jack Kornfield

"It is more disrupting to find that you have a profound nobility of character than to find out you are a bum."--Robert Johnson

 

Buddhism not a religion...

"Buddhist teachings are not a religion,

they are a science of mind."

-The Dalai Lama 

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Below: " Buddhist Dharma Wheel 1. " 2011 digitally enhanced photograph by Peter Gumaer Ogden from Quan Am Buddhist Temple, Utica, New York.

Below: " Buddhist Dharma Wheel 2. " 2011 digitally enhanced photograph by Peter Gumaer Ogden from Quan Am Buddhist Temple, Utica, New York.

 

Warning...Contains Bitterness

Bitterness

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter.--Martin Luther King