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Life Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche
- Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual…
- What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion…
- Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death…
- Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents…
- There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing…
- This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the…
- Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress…
- The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our…
- Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting…
- The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you…
- In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the…
- Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
- Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to…
- The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
- Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being…
- Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great…
- Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle