Abandoned Quote by Robert Thurman

Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to…

— Robert Thurman

You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're…

— Robert Thurman

However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self…

— Robert Thurman

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

— Robert Thurman

In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize…

— Robert Thurman

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is…

— Robert Thurman

I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even…

— Robert Thurman

To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which…

— Robert Thurman

Hate poisons your life.

— Robert Thurman

A possession can't make you happy.

— Robert Thurman

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is…

— Robert Thurman

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”

— Robert Thurman