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Suffering comes in many forms, and it’s different for each of us, based on our own experiences. Suffering is not only physical pain or emotional distress; it’s a combination of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual turmoil that can shake you to your core. - Margaret Meloni
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No matter your age always grow younger and keep moving forward. If you come to an impasse and are uncertain of how to move forward, find an area of life where you can take a step to improve and advance, even if only a baby step. - Tina Turner
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Recognizing our own nature is the view. Remaining in that state is the meditation. Integrating that with circumstances is the conduct. To make no distinction between view, meditation, and conduct is most important. - Patrul Rinpoche
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We are never taught how to deal with an epic disappointment. There is no instruction manual. There is only our ability to dig deep and rise to the challenge.
- Victor M. Parachin
- Victor M. Parachin
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In its most universal dimension, love entails cherishing others for their own sake without qualifications or preconditions. This kind of love involves an unwavering commitment to protecting others from everything that endangers their well-being. It wants all people everywhere—regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion—to live safe, fulfilling, and profoundly meaningful lives. - Bhikku Bodhi
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The Western world right now is in some kind of cultural limbo, in which it seeks something to fill the vacuum left by the absence of faith. Maybe people are trying to use politics to fill that vacuum? This could be why so many people are quite religious about politics, to the extent that divorces and the breakup of friendships are happening in American society over differences of political views. - Anam Thubten
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Among all the pleasures of the world, the pleasure of blessed tranquility is supreme. - Avatamsaka Sutra
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It’s helpful to train ourselves to assume that we’re going to have profoundly contradictory feelings about anything that’s important in our life and start to learn that we don’t have to resolve that. In fact, we may discover that training ourselves to hold contradictory thoughts, feelings, and experiences is a better approximation of complex reality because reality is not divided into yes and no, up and down.
- Bruce Tift
- Bruce Tift
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What is there about the quality of patience that causes so many of us to respond to the very word with a sense of deficiency? 'I don't have enough, I need more,' we say, putting it in the rarefied domain occupied by such phenomena as time and money. - Allan Lokos
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Traumatic experiences are prominent in the storehouse consciousness. Repeatedly remembering, reliving, and retelling them gives them more strength. It’s healthier to recognize, properly address, reframe, and promptly let them go. - Tashi Nyima