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Category: Jean-Yves Leloup

Jean-Yves Leloup

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)

criticism, praise, right-speech, self-awareness, self-criticism, speaking

Jean-Yves Leloup

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

breath, consciousness, death, life

Jean-Yves Leloup

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

anger, compassion, desire, ego, righteous-anger, well-being

Jean-Yves Leloup

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

attitude, compassion, grounded, oneness, receiving, separation, suffering, welcoming

Jean-Yves Leloup

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

change, interpretation, perception, thinking, thought, world

Jean-Yves Leloup

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)

compassion, depression, illness, suffering, well-being

Jean-Yves Leloup

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)

all-beings, belief, believe, doctrine, teachers, teaching, tradition, welfare

Jean-Yves Leloup

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

ego, monkey-mind, spiritual-practices, spirituality

Jean-Yves Leloup

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

answers, questioning, seeking, source, spirituality

Jean-Yves Leloup

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

compassion, depth, life, living

Jean-Yves Leloup

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

acceptance, equanimity, knowledge, meditation, mind, reality, simplicity, transcendence

Jean-Yves Leloup

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

practice, religion, spirituality