256 quotes found
“Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.”
“Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires, actions, and more sensations. This stream of consciousne...”
“The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.”
“But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, pas...”
“Meditate, nanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”
“By meditating, were learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarc...”
“When it comes to happiness, there is a choice to be made, let go of negativity, do not let your light fade.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
“Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their ...”
“Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and...”
“Bahujanahitya bahujanasukhya loknukampya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”
“We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.”
“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”
“When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.”
“How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.”
“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”
“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.[Verse 221] TR- Friedrich...”
“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and...”
“Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You dont choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.”
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.”
