So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEAs we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
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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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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
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Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
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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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A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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