Renounce and enjoy!
We were a perfect match. Maybe that’s why we burnt out.
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.
Life would be much easier if I had the source code.
The great ideal of Mahayana Buddhism is to remain in this world, so tempting and full of snares, but at the same time attain this awareness of the Absolute which underlies it, thus remaining free while helping others to free themselves. Nagarjuna captures the essence of this state when he proclaims, There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana;.
Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.
The Fourth Truth, brothers, is that selfishness can be extinguished by following an eightfold path: right understanding, right purpose, right speech, right conduct, right occupation, right effort, right attention, and right meditation.
Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee. 134.
I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent – that’s the worst thing.
The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become.
Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.
You can never out-give God.
28those who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of God – truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace –.
131and do not gaze longingly at what We have given some of them to enjoy, the finery of this present life: We test them through this, but the provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.
Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?
I know where I want to be, but I can’t possibly be sure we’re anywhere near it.
Mabrey, the butler, hadn’t changed much, possibly because Aunt Honoria had ordered it.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give.
God saves us as individuals – I cannot count on anyone else’s faith in order to be redeemed.