July 2012
63 posts
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“What consumes your mind also consumes your life. Let not the brilliance of the...”
– introskeptic
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“If the same music dosen’t give you the same effect, does that mean that...”
– introskeptic
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“The head is a complicated seeking device”
– Allan Watts, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8o70euBYI&feature=relmfu (Reflecting Mirror)
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“Strictly speaking, you don’t think: Thinking happens to you.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“Nonreaction to the ego of others is one of the most effective ways not only of...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club
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“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi
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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the...”
– William S. Burroughs
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“If you can be content right now then you will always be content ~ because...”
– Willie Nelson
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“The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It...”
– Dalai Lama
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“Desires and expectations are the sources of disappointment. Don’t cling to them....”
– Zen Buddhism
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Book of Zen
“What is the point?” said the student.
“That’s right”, said the monk. “What is the point.”
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“When you stop desiring it, you are free from it. Don’t be a slave to...”
– introskeptic
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“Experience brings thoughts to the mind, and what meditation does is cut the...”
– introskeptic
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“What people seem most is troubled, always trying to escape their situation. Not...”
– introskeptic
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“Do not try to reform or teach anyone, it is enough by changing yourself.”
– Zen Attitude
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“You can not make anyone responsible for your evolution. Accept this truth...”
– Osho
It also says that we can only make an individual effort to evolve. If you evolve others will notice the change and will seek their own evolution.
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove...”
– Friedrich Nietszche
“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels...”
– Buddha (via lazyyogi)
“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (VIII. 47)
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is...”
– Paramhamsa Yogananda (via lazyyogi)
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“Loneliness is just one part of human experience: when it arises, we have to...”
– Ask A Monk
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“Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own...”
– Sri Nisargatta Maharaj
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“Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness...”
– Sri Nisargatta Maharaj, “I Am That”
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“Purify yourself by a well-ordered and useful life. Watch over your thoughts,...”
– Sri Nisargatta Maharaj, “I Am That”
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“Knowing the world to be a part of myself, I pay it no more attention than you...”
– Sri Nisargatta Maharaj, “I Am That”
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“He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of...”
– Bhagavad-Gita
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“I have done my best”, that is about all the philosophy of living that one...”
– Lin-yutang
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“Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to...”
– Langya - Zen quotes
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“The daily experience of the self is so familiar, and yet the brain science shows...”
– Dr. Bruce Hood Cognitive Neuroscientist
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“To uphold the I-thought, it needs the opposite thought of “the other.” The...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“The content of the ego varies from person to person, but in every ego the same...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“Pack your bags,
Go to the station without them,
Catch the train,
And leave...”
– Wei Wu Wei
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“There are no secrets
there is nothing to find
abandon every concept
each...”
– Zen
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“When you understand that all beings are fleeing suffering
and everyone wants to...”
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“You only lose what you cling to. But, nothing is really lost because nothing...”
– Zen
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“Compassion does not distinguish race, sex, religion, species… Understand...”
– Zen
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“The road is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. To know is illusion, not...”
– Nansen
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“The chains of slavery only tie our hands: it is the mind that makes men free or...”
– Franz Grillparze
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“Most successful people don’t know how they became successful, they just...”
– introskeptic
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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance, is to be satisfied with your opinions and...”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature,...”
– Helen Keller
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“We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from...”
– Albert Einstein
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“We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the...”
– Hellen Keller 