You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.” — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
