Robert Thurman Quotes

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• The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view,…
• Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become...
• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
• Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain…
• In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
• The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a…
• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift,…
• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises,…
• To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can…
• Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
• To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not…
• Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven…
• Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red,…
• It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
• Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
• When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. Â…
• Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of…
• More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
• Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
• People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good…

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