"It took me forty years of dealing with……" — Robert Thurman
"It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss."
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Robert Thurman
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23 Quotes by Robert Thurman
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The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of…
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Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to…
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The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
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Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is…
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In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.
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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not…
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Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic,…
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of…
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Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
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To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from…
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Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be;…
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More Bliss Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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