Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Quotes

#1. It's only when you have a child of your own you really understand how hard it is.

Sue Watson

#2. Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear.

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#3. See I'm humble but I live fame, for more deals on the table than a Bridge game.

Drake

#4. What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

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#5. I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

Betty Dodson

#6. The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

John Townsend Trowbridge

#7. When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

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#8. There is more to talking than just words.

Humphrey Bogart

#9. A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that - every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new

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#10. My corpse doesn't need a diamond throne.

Kenya Wright

#11. By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

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#12. The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

William J. Clinton

#13. The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

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#14. And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

Paulo Coelho

#15. You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

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#16. A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.

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#17. The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist objectively, but their true mode of existence is like a dream: apparent yet insubstantial.

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#18. Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

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#19. Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

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#20. My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

Jack Huston

#21. When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

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#22. Rethink Your Success Mindset: Gratitude is the attitude, fuel and catalyst that transforms life's challenges into wisdom.

Tony Dovale

#23. We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

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#24. Faith is like the sun. Some people are closer to the source of that love and light, and can bask in the warmth, while others are further away. Some look toward the light, while others face the opposite direction.

Brownell Landrum

#25. I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

Nora Roberts

#26. The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.

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#27. My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Frida Giannini

#28. Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

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