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“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the ri...”
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We dont know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and fee...”
“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if were honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devot...”
“When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.”
“Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.”
“But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.”
“One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.”
“Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If ...”
“Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.”
“Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.”
“I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jack...”
“The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than as a physical fact, he had relied on his spiritual st...”
“The idea that traumatic residuesor unresolved storiescan be inherited is groundbreaking.”
“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.”
“If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.”
“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
“The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.”
“Reincarnation isn't something in which I choose to believe but rather a truth I accept. Most people will never know the meaning of their friendships, passions, choices and even challenges. I embrac...”
“It is a great mistake to say Conquer it, for we can never conquer nature; we can only harmonize with it.”
“Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.”
