190 quotes found
“Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge.”
“We wanted peace. We did not care about anyones victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.”
“Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.”
“Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.”
“When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.”
“Together with the patient, a therapist looks at the nature of the pain. Often, the therapist can uncover causes of suffering that stem from the way the patient looks at things, the beliefs he holds...”
“The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves inside the skin of the other.”
“The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.”
“We need the vision of interbeingwe belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of this is the well-being of that, so we have to do things together. Every side is our sid...”
“Mindful observation is based on the principle of non-duality: our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling...”
“In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route.”
“Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present...”
“We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]”
“Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.”
“We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. B...”
“Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.”
“We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.”
“Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment”
“A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the w...”
“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
