Tarthang Quotes

#1. Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

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#2. When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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#3. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.

Joan Didion

#4. Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.

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#5. If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Darren Shan

#6. Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Jack Dee

#7. Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Darin Strauss

#8. Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

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#9. Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious.

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#10. Well, we need to make sure we don't frighten him off. We'll approach him very slowly and speak in quiet gentle tones. Put on some nice perfume and let him sniff you.

N.M. Silber

#11. It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

Ethan Suplee

#12. Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

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#13. Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.

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#14. To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes

Alan Dean Foster

#15. Complete health and awakening are really the same.

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#16. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.

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#17. Know that however difficult experiences may be,
they are part of the truth you seek.

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#18. The world will be balanced when we are balanced.

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#19. If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

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#20. I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.

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#22. Because i promise you, i will pick up every broken little piece of you, every single fucking piece, Grace, and for the rest of my fucking life i will put you back together

Christine Zolendz

#23. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#24. The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.

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#25. Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

William Shakespeare

#26. Each of us must also sell something, even if for most of us it is our own services rather than goods, in order to get the purchasing power to buy.

Henry Hazlitt

#27. The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude
from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.

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#28. Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

Jack Vance

#29. Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

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