Top 21 Tenzin Rinpoche Quotes
#1. The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#2. We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after # death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of # dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#3. Stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.
Martha Gellhorn
#4. The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
#5. Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
Dave Hickey
#6. I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.
Viv Albertine
#7. The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos
#8. Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#9. About three million Muslims live in the country, but we have no relationship to our diverse Muslim society, despite the fact that it's an established part of our larger society. We need to build a stronger foundation for the relationship between Muslims and the state.
Wolfgang Schauble
#10. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
#11. That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion
nothing less, nothing more
J.R. Ward
#12. No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
Walter Kaufmann
#13. Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do
Peter Boettke
#15. Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them..
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#16. The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#17. No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#18. I am so touched at how my family has embraced my situation. They don't even know this child, and they already love her.
Nia Vardalos
#19. The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
Jewel
#20. From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#21. If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.
Maurice Blanchot
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