Charlie Ambler > Quotes

“Boredom isn’t even a real function within nature. It is a human glitch. Nature is beyond judgment; only humans cast broad sweeping judgments across their world about what’s good, what’s bad, what is or isn’t worth their time, etc. As soon as you cast judgement, you limit your world. Whenever you’re bored, it’s your own fault. Boredom is caused by judgement.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Imagine your ego as a corrupt court system where your thoughts are bribing one another for attention and self-interest.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“People want to leave something behind. It’s a supreme form of human arrogance to attempt to force one’s posthumous footprint upon an impermanent world. If you live a modest life, work diligently towards realistic goals and treat people with compassion and respect, you’ve done a service.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Question your own opinions before you question others’ opinions. Before”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“If we can spend some solo-time cultivating these mental tools (meditation, gratitude, compassion, awareness), we can apply them in real-time to real-life situations without having to step back and over-analyze everything.”
― Charlie Ambler

“You can try to force your worldview upon others, but doing so just reinforces your own egoism and will make you and others unhappy.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“If your spend your time working at a job, most of your daily moments exist within that job. You can think about not being where you are, but it will only make being there more difficult.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Meditation allows you to reverberate with this understanding, to simply exist and be among everything, and to realize that consciousness within this world is a miracle in its own right.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Information is learned through reading and consuming, knowledge is learned through interaction, and wisdom is learned through introspection.   Don’t”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Let your work develop on its own accord, as if you are simply a vehicle through which a universal creative energy is traveling.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“نحن نهتم كثيرا بصحتنا وتناسق أجسامنا لدرجة أننا حين نقترب من النهاية لا نستطيع أن ندرك أن هذه الأجسام ما هي إلا مجرد صناديق، تحمل شخصياتنا وأفكارنا وما نؤمن به ونوايانا التي نحملها لهذا العالم، إذا كان هذا الصندوق فارغا ولا يوجد به ما يمكنه تغيير هذا العالم فلن يكون هناك أي مشكلة في اختفائه من هذا العالم”
― Charlie Ambler

“The desire to be right is nothing but another attachment, and it can ruin relationships. The ego is not real. Right and wrong are not real. All you have is yourself, the essential core of which cannot be communicated.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom

“Most stress simply results from the chaos induced by not breathing properly. Stress causes irregular breathing, and irregular breathing causes stress.”
― Charlie Ambler, The Daily Zen Book of Wisdom