Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
We usually don't look. We overlook.
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
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