Posts tagged "inspirational"
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
- Douglas Adams
29
"If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dōgen
141
"

I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple
witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.
Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this
is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once
the gap is there, you are in for a great suprise, that you are not the mind, that
you are the witness, A watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as
you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start
disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for
the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

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- Osho
233
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
- Alan Wilson Watts
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
- Bil Keane
257
"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it."
- Osho
46
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

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- Rumi
83
"The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands."
- Keanu Reeves
241
"Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called ‘peacekeeping forces’ into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world."
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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"Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end."
- Daisaku Ikeda
479
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."
- Pema Chödrön
83
"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
- Daisaku Ikeda
71
"When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow"
- Gautama Buddha
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"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else."
- Shunryu Suzuki
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"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."
- Hermann Hess