Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Create Personalise WishesWe need to make a very clear distinction…
We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego’s self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.
20When your fear touches someone’s…
When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.
17There is only one law in the universe…
There is only one law in the universe that never changes– that all things change, and that all things are impermanent.
19Anyone looking honestly at life…
Anyone looking honestly at life will see that we live in a constant state of suspense and ambiguity.
17You must constantly nourish openness,…
You must constantly nourish openness, breadth of vision, willingness, enthusiasm, and reverence, that will change the whole atmosphere of your mind.
17This world can seem marvelously…
This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.
14Do not mistake understanding for…
The secret is not to think …
The secret is not to “think” about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.
17So one moment you have lost something…
So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace.
10As long as you cultivate stillness,…
As long as you cultivate stillness, you may enjoy peace, but whenever your mind is a little bit disturbed, deluded thoughts will set in again.
12If you want to know your past life,…
If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.
11We may idealize freedom, but when…
What we have to learn, in both…
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
40Two people have been living in…
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.
16War is an invention of the human…
People who develop the habit of…
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
18Some people don’t really know enough…
The way a book is read – which…
The way a book is read – which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book – can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
16Just as there is no loss of basic…
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
15I have learned never to underestimate…
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate – even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
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