In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”

Quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness...”  
- Barbara Brown Taylor

Tuesday- 
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”  
- Brené Brown

Wednesday- 
“Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.”
- Marshall Rosenberg

Thursday- 
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” 
- Joseph Campbell

Friday- 
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” 
- David Lynch

Saturday- 
“Rest and activity are the steps of progress.” 
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sunday- 
“Out of bliss these beings are born, in bliss they are sustained, and to bliss they go and merge again.” 
- Taittiriya Upanishad 3.6.1

In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Mary Jo Weaver-

"Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words." 

The quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
" What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.” 
- Lucretius

Tuesday- "You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours...” 
- Bryant McGill

Wednesday- 
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” 
-Jane Goodall

Thursday- 
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.” 
- E. M. Forster

Friday- 
“The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.”
- Piet Mondrian

Saturday- 
“Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character, we build our destiny.”
- Henry Hancock

Sunday- 
“Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.”  
- Mary Jo Weaver

Special podcast extra quote-

Untitled poem by Rabindranath Tagore 

Incense yearns to disappear in scent

Scent to cling to incense

Melody seeks to fetter herself in rhythm

While the rhythm flows back to melody

Idea seeks its body in form 

Form its freedom in the idea 

The infinite seeks the touch of the finite

The finite its release in the infinite

What drama is this between creation and destruction?

The ceaseless to and frow between idea and form

Bondage is forever striving after freedom

And freedom seeking rest in bondage

In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Ansari of Herat

“Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the Beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than this is not known to me.” Ansari of Herat

Quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
- Lin Yutang

Tuesday- 
“Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.”
- Karl Menninger

Wednesday- 
“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.” 
- Robert Frost

Thursday- 
“Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than this is not known to me.” 
- Ansari of Herat

Friday- 
“The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.”
- Eric Hoffer

Saturday- 
"The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
- Emerson

Sunday- 
"As oil in sesame seeds, as butter in milk, as water in rivers, as fire in wood, so the Self is found within oneself…” 
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad 1.15