If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
And where, Socrates smiled, is the universe?The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped...That's not what I asked. Where is it?I don't know - how can I answer that?That is the point...
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
Valójában, Szókratész, nincs ellenséged, csak te magad. Békélj meg magaddal, és nem lesz senki, aki legyőzhet. És senki, akit te kívánnál legyőzni.
Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.
He asked, Where are you today, right now?Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my...
Merülj el a rejtélyben, Szókratész! Bízz benne! Felejtsd el, amit gondolsz, hogy minek kellene és minek nem kellene lennie, és ismét megtalálod a hited.
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resista...
It's a thought, I said with a grin.That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than the shadow of a shadow. Consciousness is not In the body; the body is In Consciousness. And you Are th...
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
He was a thinker, but also a man of action.
First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.
Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
Think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.
After that, before each practice began, we would sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Many children learn this song in my country, I said, but few people understand its deeper truths. These truths apply, as...
The birth of the mind is the death of the senses