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Beings Quotes by Pema Chodron
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
- When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
- Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
- Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
- Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your…
- While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's…
- That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.…
- Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing…
- I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.…
- As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,…
- True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
- The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that…
- The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
- For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams