Gelek Rimpoche Quotes

#1. My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. I know a lie when I hear one.

Adrian Mitchell

#3. Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

Gelek Rimpoche

#4. The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Gelek Rimpoche

#6. That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Gelek Rimpoche

#7. I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.

Matthew Morrison

#8. My emotions are invisible, untouchable - invincible even - and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#9. There is no absurdity so palpable that one could not fix it firmly in the head of every man on earth provided one began to imprint it before his sixth year by ceaselessly rehearsing it before him with solemn earnestness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Gelek Rimpoche

#11. If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.

Gelek Rimpoche

#12. In America, public opinion is the leader.

Frances Perkins

#13. Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.

Gelek Rimpoche

#14. I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Jessie J.

#15. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Oli Anderson

#16. We are all the President's men.

Henry A. Kissinger

#17. It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea
It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

Sara Teasdale