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spiritual doors pudding
No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now. Augusten Burroughs
spiritual ego want
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual conscious
Become conscious of being conscious. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual past new-earth
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual cat meditation
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual awareness power-of-now
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual thinking joy
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual self ego
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual art technology
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. Eckhart Tolle
buddhist selfish want
If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others Dalai Lama
buddhist successful thinking
We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy. Dalai Lama
buddhist philosophy moral
To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy. Max Muller
buddhist kings book
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran , which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka , the Tao-te-king of Laotze , the Kings of Confucius , the Veda and the Avesta . Max Muller
buddhist mind able
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. Martin Scorsese
buddhist prayer believe
In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us. John Shelby Spong
buddhist talking continuity-of-life
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel. Morris West
buddhist chamber commission discovered material music piece teachings
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. Joseph Jarman
buddhist writing creativity
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well. Gary Snyder
buddhism
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. Roger Zelazny
buddhism two differences
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing. Friedrich Nietzsche
buddhism people suffering
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. Nhat Hanh
buddhism thinking people
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be. Pema Chodron
buddhism needs way
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do. Pankaj Mishra