"Why do we think we should get what we want, when others don't get what they need?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
20th century philosopher
"All the joy the world contains has come from wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world
contains has come from wanting pleasure for one self."
Shantideva
8th Century Indian Buddhist scholar
"Suffering is nothing but existence enslaved to ignorance"
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist
"Never mind what I have been taught. Forget about theories and prejudices and stereotypes.
I want to understand the true nature of life. I want to know what this experience of being alive really
is. I want to apprehend the true and deepest qualities of life, and I don't want to just accept somebody
else's explanation. I want to see it for myself."
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk
"Divinity has one ultimate secret, which it will also whisper in your ear if your mind becomes
quieter than the fog at sunset."
Ken Wilber
Philosopher
"We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for!"
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk
"It is our fear at experiencing ourselves directly that creates suffering... We cannot find our
enlightened minds while continuing to be estranged from our neurotic ones."
Mark Epstein
Psychotherapist
"The work of the Holy One is to break our hearts wide open - so that we leak out all over the
place. It is only to the degree that we are empty of ourselves that we can be filled with Love."
Robert Smith
Founder of Dorothy's Place
"The only liberation is that which liberates both the oppressor and the oppressed at the same time"
Thomas Merton
Trappist Monk
"Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes. Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is. A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is."
Eckhart Tolle
Philosopher
"When the slaves get together, that's the ending of slavery."
Martin Luther King Jr
Non-Violent Civil Rights Leader
"And you should know as a fact that whenever the free-spirit is to be found in true detachment,
it brings God to it's being."
Meister Eckhart
13th Century Dominican Mystic
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"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginners
mind there are many possibilities, in the experts- very few."
Shunryu Suzuki
Soto Zen Master
"There is only one law in the Universe that never changes- that all things change and all things
are impermanent."
Buddha
"Our root fantasy is that 'I' am real and that there's a way to make 'me' happy. The reason we
meditate is to let that fantasy unravel. After awhile we notice that much of what we took to be real and
permanent about ourselves isn't so solid- it's a string of thoughts we hold together with tremendous
effort. We've built an identity out of a thin web of concepts."
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Head Of Shambhala Buddhist Lineage
"When fullness is taken from fullness- fullness still remains."
Isha Upanishad
Hindu Scripture
mind there are many possibilities, in the experts- very few."
Shunryu Suzuki
Soto Zen Master
"There is only one law in the Universe that never changes- that all things change and all things
are impermanent."
Buddha
"Our root fantasy is that 'I' am real and that there's a way to make 'me' happy. The reason we
meditate is to let that fantasy unravel. After awhile we notice that much of what we took to be real and
permanent about ourselves isn't so solid- it's a string of thoughts we hold together with tremendous
effort. We've built an identity out of a thin web of concepts."
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Head Of Shambhala Buddhist Lineage
"When fullness is taken from fullness- fullness still remains."
Isha Upanishad
Hindu Scripture
"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than it does God."
Thomas Merton
Trappist Monk
"To be dependant on the appreciation of another for your self-worth is
a never ending pursuit of illusion."
Sunanda Patwardhan
Student & Friend of J.Krishnamurti