"Without our familiar props, we are faced with……" — Sogyal Rinpoche
"Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?"
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96 Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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