"We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. " ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥24SharePinTweet0 SharesLife QuotesPositiveQuotes Gallery
"The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Anyone looking honestly at life will see that we live in a constant state of suspense and ambiguity." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There is only one law in the universe that never changes-- that all things change, and that all things are impermanent." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"You must constantly nourish openness, breadth of vision, willingness, enthusiasm, and reverence, that will change the whole atmosphere of your mind." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The secret is not to “think” about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥40SharePinTweet6 SharesInspirational QuotesPositiveQuotes GalleryYoga Quotes
"We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about" ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~ Norman Cousins ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being." ~ Norman Cousins ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life." ~ Norman Cousins ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
"People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time." ~ Norman Cousins ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." ~ Norman Cousins ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice." ~ Norman Cousins ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares