Giving Thought Quotes by S. N. Goenka

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• One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until…
• Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
• Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
• The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.
• I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion,…
• Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.
• The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
• Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward…
• For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets…
• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with…
• We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp.…
• The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

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