Robert Thurman

Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for…

— Robert Thurman

You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one,…

— Robert Thurman

However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no…

— Robert Thurman

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

— Robert Thurman

In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when…

— Robert Thurman

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.…

— Robert Thurman

I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over…

— Robert Thurman

To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened…

— Robert Thurman

Hate poisons your life.

— Robert Thurman

A possession can't make you happy.

— Robert Thurman

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?,"…

— Robert Thurman

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”

— Robert Thurman

It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

— Robert Thurman

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the…

— Robert Thurman

I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego,…

— Robert Thurman

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

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

— Robert Thurman

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there…

— Robert Thurman

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even…

— Robert Thurman

If someone gets a bigger house, does that automatically make them happy? Maybe for a second. But then they worry about the…

— Robert Thurman

The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that…

— Robert Thurman

The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.,…

— Robert Thurman

First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too…

— Robert Thurman

Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where…

— Robert Thurman

They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course,…

— Robert Thurman