Tenzin Palmo Quotes

#1. Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.

Vivian Gornick

#2. To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.

Tenzin Palmo

#3. If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

Tenzin Palmo

#4. In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

Immanuel Kant

#5. I can't share your love of God. But I do understand your need to give your life to him. Each of us has within us something that just won't be denied. Something to which we are driven even though it makes us scream aloud to die.

Colleen McCullough

#6. We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Tenzin Palmo

#7. A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes

Tenzin Palmo

#9. After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

Johnny Cash

#10. I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.

Shannon Hale

#11. If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds
a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.

James Gould Cozzens

#12. We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

Tenzin Palmo

#13. The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

Tenzin Palmo

#14. For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.

Tenzin Palmo

#15. Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

Tenzin Palmo

#16. What do you mean, the police were suspicious because you weren't wearing enough clothes?" Ash demanded, staring coldly at Jared. "Where were your clothes?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Tenzin Palmo

#18. This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

Tenzin Palmo

#19. Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.

Vicki Mackenzie

#20. Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions,
that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

Tenzin Palmo

#21. Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for loving me in spite of my transgressions and failing. Please continue to guide me away from temptations and into your loving embrace. Encourage my desire for oneness with You so that I will ask for it. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Christina Weigand

#22. Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

Peter Asher

#23. A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Mal Peet