Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Quotes

#1. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

Matthieu Ricard

#2. To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need
the two wings of emptiness and compassion.
From now on, let us use these two wings
to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.

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#3. Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

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#4. Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

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#5. Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought.
When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.

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#6. When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.

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#7. Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

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#8. It's never too early or too late to benefit beings.

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#9. If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

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#10. My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Selena Gomez

#11. Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

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#12. Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Emile M. Cioran

#13. Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

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#14. If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

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#15. Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

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#16. With the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

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#17. When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.

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#18. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

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#19. If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves,
they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky,
without leaving a trace.

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#20. Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

E. O. Wilson

#21. Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

Joey Votto

#22. On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

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#23. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly.

David McCullough

#25. To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

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#26. The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

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#27. Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

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#28. Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

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#29. Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

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#30. A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

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#31. It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

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#32. Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Bob Garfield

#33. Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

Agnes Denes

#34. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

John Milton

#35. Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today's Cairo.

Yuval Noah Harari

#36. Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age

Nizar Qabbani

#37. The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."

Ibn Ata Allah

#38. We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.

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#39. Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

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#40. He past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..

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#41. May the suffering of all beings be pacified.

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