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“To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.”
“This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.”
“If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don't need to s...”
“But as we let go of our repetitive stories and fixed ideas about ourselves--particularly deep-seated feelings of "I'm not okay"--the armor starts to fall apart, and we open into the spaciousness of...”
“But often it is a seemingly irresolvable relationship that teaches us the most, once we're willing to be vulnerable and honest, once we're willing to connect with what Chogyam Trungpa called "the g...”
“There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In ot...”
“Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.”
“... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.”
“A life that is happy and has no money, is better then a life unhappy with money.”
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even...”
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“If youre reading these words, perhaps its because something has kicked open the door for you, and youre ready to embrace change. It isnt enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstra...”
“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, t...”
“Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.”
“Yes, Klmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Klmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hears...”
“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”
“The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.”
“Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.”
“Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.”
“To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.”
