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A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on, we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can't let just one channel dominate us. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Joy comes from contentment, while worry stems from desire. - Hsing Yun
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The word 'attention' comes from the Latin attendere, which literally means 'to stretch. As we pay attention to, and therefore stretch, the interval in the mind between seeing and interpreting the world becomes a very different place. - Ben Ponte
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Deep listening is at the foundation of right speech. If we cannot listen mindfully, we cannot practise right speech. No matter what we say, it will not be mindful, because we’ll be speaking only our own ideas and not in response to the other person. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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“I recently had the experience of walking through Toronto’s flagship shopping mall looking for a small clock to give as a gift. There were at least 10 stores selling high-end watches—the kind of stores with fearsome security guards at their doors. The double irony is that almost everyone has a mobile phone and a smart watch so nobody really needs a watch like those stores sell, and, conversely, most of us could never afford to make such a purchase. So really those stores are telling us that we are unworthy but that we should aspire to be able to buy such useless items simply as status symbols. The underlying message seems to be that we are not allowed to be happy.” - John Harvey Negru
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Compassionate listening is critical to interpersonal and political communication, because without it, more talking can exacerbate the existing divides and misunderstandings. - Yang Yang Cheng
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To understand reality we must first understand the unreal. - Paul Brunton
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People just don’t think rationally; they simply cling to the established pattern. They have always done it that way and they just refuse to change. - Buddhadasa
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By doing regular meditation and having a bit of perspective on what the human mind is like, you can use it to push back a little bit and you don’t get so carried away and caught up in things like grief, or annoyance, or anger. - Ratnaprabha
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Down through the ages in all ancient religions and philosophies there is inherent a certain message, namely that it is possible to realize within ourselves our essential union with the ultimate Supreme Power of the Universe. We are part of it.
- Paul Dukes
- Paul Dukes