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- Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual…
- Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
- This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
- Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
- There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
- So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we…
- 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…
- At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,…
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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