Many / One

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1		"When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe."

2		"Every human being has a basic nature of goodness, which is undiluted and unconfused. That goodness contains tremendous gentleness and appreciation."

3		"When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish."

4		"From being open and honest with ourselves, we can also learn to be open with others. So we can work with the rest of the world, on the basis of the goodness we discover in ourselves."

5		"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."

6		"Fearlessness means being able to respond accurately to the phenomenal world altogether."

7		"We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present."

8		"In order to establish an enlightened society for others, we need to discover what inherently we have to offer the world. So, to begin with, we should make an effort to examine our own experience, in order to see what it contains that is of value in helping ourselves and others to uplift their existence."

9		"We experience glimpses of goodness all the time, but we often fail to acknowledge them. When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness."

10		"You are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages."

11		"Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."

12		"This experience of nowness can join together the vastness of primordial wisdom with both the wisdom of past traditions and the realities of contemporary life. So in that way, you begin to see how the world of sacredness can be created altogether."

13		"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."

14		"If you actually look, if you take your whole being apart and examine it, you find that you are genuine and good as you are."

15		"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already."

16		"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."

17		"We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world."

18		"It is necessary to appreciate that, for many thousands of years, human beings have been collecting wisdom….We should not ignore the contributions of the past."

19		"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the world."

20		"There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still One."

21		"Understand that your life, as it is, contains the means to unconditionally cheer you up and cure you of depression and doubt."

22		"The magical strength and wisdom of reality are always there. That wisdom abides in the cosmic mirror. By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primoridal, original ground, which is completely pure and simple."

23		"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."

24		"As human beings, we are basically awake and we CAN understand reality. We are not enslaved by our lives; we are free."

25		"A bank of self-existing energy is always available to you – beyond any circumstance. It actually comes from nowhere, but is always there. It is the energy of basic goodness."