“Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.”
—Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (via lucifelle)
April 2012
21 posts
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
—J.K. Rowling (via darkmedeia)
“I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via venomos)
“The ability to perceive or think differently
is more important than the knowledge gained.” —
is more important than the knowledge gained.” —
David Bohm,
one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century
(via shaktilover)
“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” —
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” —
Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)
“Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.”
—Buddha (via babydoll1976)
“Weakness is great, strength is insignificant. When man is born he is weak and malleable. When he dies he is strong and callused. When a tree is still growing it is flexible and tender, and when it is dry and hard, it dies. Callosity and strength are the companions of death. Pliancy and weakness are signs of the freshness of being. What has grown hard will therefore never triumph.”
—Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (via nuburu)
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
—Deepak Chopra (via pinkmoons)
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
—Buddha (via naturae-filius)
“Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.”
—Nisargadatta Maharaj (via light-essence)
“Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength.”
—Dalai Lama via yogaprivatelessons (via petitpoulailler)
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
—Charles Chaplin (via elige)
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
—Albert Einstein (via elige)
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
—Deepak Chopra (via breathemystardust)
“The new man I talk about and the new humanity, will not be Eastern or Western. It will not believe in this world only or in that world only, it will believe in the totality of man. It will believe in the body of man, it will believe in the soul of man; it will believe in the material, it will believe in the spiritual. In fact the new humanity will think of spirituality and materiality as two aspects of one phenomenon. Then the world will be rich in both ways, within and without.”
—Osho (via elige)
“On the mountain cliffs, surrounded by an ocean of clouds, nothing else exists but myself at one with the sun.”
—Almine (via lucifelle)
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh (via lucifelle)
“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”
—Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (via elige)
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”
—Buddha (via elige)
