Zopa Rinpoche Quotes

#1. Every man must skin his own skunk,

F. Edward Hulme

#2. By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

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#3. When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

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#4. What is the mind? It is a phenomenon that is not body, not substantial, has no form, no shape, no color, but, like a mirror, can clearly reflect objects

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

#5. We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

Catherine McAuley

#6. If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

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#7. Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

Myles Munroe

#8. The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Duncan Sheik

#9. Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

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#10. Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

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#11. A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

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#12. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

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#13. It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.

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#14. Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

Matt Chandler

#15. Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

Nora Roberts

#16. Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

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#17. Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.

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