Top 35 Tsoknyi Rinpoche Quotes
#1. We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.
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#2. Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.
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#3. I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.
Cathy Hughes
#4. True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.
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#5. It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Benjamin Franklin
#6. An immersion into greenery and sunlight will surely help me sort out my thoughts.
Suzanne Collins
#7. True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
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#8. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
Sylvia Nasar
#9. Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.
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#10. The pain was shrill enough, but the idea of a finger of mine twitching about, lost in chicken-pecked dust, was more terrible.
Daniel Woodrell
#11. I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
Julian Casablancas
#12. Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.
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#14. Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.
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#15. Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.
William Henry Jackson
#18. Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.
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#19. Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.
Ned Vizzini
#20. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
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#21. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
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#22. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
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#23. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
Mark Batterson
#24. Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.
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#25. I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#26. Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.
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#27. I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.
Lemony Snicket
#28. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
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#29. There was an air of decay that enveloped the property as if it had been kissed by dead lips glossed with mildew.
Keith Minshew
#30. Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him.
Neville Goddard
#31. If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.
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#32. A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's an opening of a conversation between the heart and the mind.
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#33. This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.
Elizabeth Chandler
#34. Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It's just wide open. That's because the essence of mind is empty. It's wide open and free
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#35. When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.
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