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“Wisdom, which helps us make reasonably good life choices, enabling us to live reasonably good lives, can’t be secret or esoteric. It must reside in what is common and ordinary; otherwise, what hope would any of us have of living well?” — Rafe Martin

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“Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the important thing is not to get rid of thought but to understand it.” — Ajahn Sumedho

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“Regardless of how far we think we’ve strayed or how many times we’ve fallen on the ground, in each and every moment we have the opportunity to use that same ground to stand.” — Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

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“May we be free from the ills that plague us. May we find and make the refuges we need, not only to survive the difficult now but to thrive in our yet-to-be-determined shared future.” — Chenxing Han

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“There’s a Japanese saying: ‘Darkness lies at the foot of the lighthouse’—meaning that by focusing too much on the distance, we may fail to illuminate what’s right at our feet.” — Shoukei Matsumoto

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