• If we could not be bought by praise or defeated by criticism, we would have incredible strength. We would be extraordinarily free, there would be no more unnecessary hopes and fears, sweat and blood and emotional reactions. We would finally be able to practice “I don’t give a damn.” Free from chasing after, and avoiding other people’s acceptance and rejection, we would be able to appreciate what we have in the present moment.

-Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

• When you were a kid you had a kind of inebriation for work, which everyone else called play.

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• “You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

― Tristan Tzara

• The origin of all demons is in mind itself.

When awareness holds on and embraces any outer object, It is in the hold of a demon. Machig Labdrön

• But in the practice of relative bodhicitta, you cannot trust your feelings. Moments you wish to avoid or escape, feeling awkward or claustrophobic or painful or unbearable, are the moments in which you grow the most if you simply stay and unclench.

- Lazy Yogi

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world’s greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecation, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are. Pema Chödron

• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Chögyam Trungpa

• You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

Ajahn Chah

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

These days the world really needs people who are willing to let their hearts, their bodhicitta, ripen. There’s such widespread devastation and suffering: people are being run over by tanks or their houses are being blown up or soldiers are knocking on their doors in the middle of the night and taking them away and torturing them and killing their children and their loved ones. People are starving. It’s a hard time. We who are living in the lap of luxury with our pitiful little psychological problems have a tremendous responsibility to let our clarity and our heart, our warmth, and our ability ripen, to open up and let go, because it’s so contagious.

Pema Chödron

Imagining yourself to be the body, no wonder you have all these ailments. Imagining yourself to be the mind, no wonder you have all these worries. Knowing yourself to be consciousness, No wonder there is all this space and peace. Realising you are the unborn awareness, no wonder you are supremely happy. ~ Mooji

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all." written by Abraham Lincoln