The other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEIt has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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