[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Cheerful New Year

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 4, 2004

CHEERFUL NEW YEAR

Cheerful New Year....Ladies and gentlemen, we hold the threshold of the 
future of the world in our hands, on our path. We are not dreaming. We are 
not tripping. We are not exaggerating. We hold a tremendous hope. Maybe we 
are the only hope for the future dark age. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a 
lot of responsibilities, and those responsibilities are not easy to 
fulfill. They won't come along easily, like an ordinary success story. They 
have to be stitched, painted, carved, step by step, inch by inch, minute by 
minute.
	It will be manual work. There will be no automatic big 
sweep....Particularly when something good is done in the world, it is 
usually difficult. It is manual, rather than automatic. When something bad 
is done, usually that is automatic; that is a big sweep. Evil things are 
easy to catch, but good ones are difficult to catch. They go against the 
grain of ordinary habitual tendencies.

	A New Year's Message delivered for the Tibetan New Year, 1981, to the 
members of the Shambhala Lodge.


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