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Nature Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche
- What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:…
- Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
- Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
- ...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
- If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what…
- For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result…
- When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded.…
- 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…
- If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
- Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all…
- Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally…
- 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…
- Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
- . . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind…
- Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if…
- Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does…
- 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…
- {While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle