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“As the Supreme Buddha once said, “The root of suffering is attachment.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that it aims to teach us to find hope from within ourselves, rather than seeking outside advice or saviors. It tells us that only we can help ourselves. It’s existentialist in that way, and shockingly modern.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“Know what you can change from what you can’t, and you’ll live a happier, more peaceful life. This view is not pessimistic—it is pragmatic. It acknowledges that the world is a difficult and complicated place to live in. The more you view the world as a harsh and unforgiving, the more defeated you will feel. The more you view the world as friendly and safe, the more naïve you will be.   See it as it really is. Don’t kid yourself or others. Don’t judge other people based on standards you invented—accept them for who they are.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“I believe we all suffer from an innate fear of being left behind and forgotten.   Well, guess what?   You will be forgotten one day.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“If you learn only one thing from this book, let it be that: that an Indian man 2,600 years ago came up with the answer to existential problems long before the existentialists even asked them. He knew it was every man for himself, and that you should accept that and be happy.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Expect things to go wrong, expect things to be different than we hoped or planned, expect the unexpected to happen. And accept it.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“  To be in a state of nirvana means to ignore greed, selfishness, anger and other distracting emotions. It is, in a word, to be emotionally above the rest of the world. It sounds a bit haughty, but the idea is this completely carelessness about oneself, a delicate balance between being self-centered and not being egocentric. Nirvana means being altruistic and kind, understanding selflessness enough to know how small you are in the universe, and being okay with that.   According to one story,”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Slow Travel aims to destroy the old tourist model of “fly in, see everything, stay in the hotel and leave” and replace it with spending more quality time in a single place to really absorb the atmosphere.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“happy.   Gautama never wanted to be deified like a God, and that didn’t happen. But people”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“The first truth is that there is suffering in the world. We may know this phrase as, “Shit happens.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“You can think of it like turning a machine off so you can repair it. Makes sense, doesn’t it?”
― Dominique Francon, Sleep: Hacking! - 27 Proven Tips to Hack Your Way to a Better Sleep, Increased Brain Power & Unstoppable Energy

“The Supreme Buddha’s main goal was to enlighten people, so that they could live in harmony. Do you know what happened instead? They bickered. They argues over interpretations and over the “right way to study the Supreme Buddha. The disagreed, and because they disagreed they created schisms inn their own lives and branched into a thousand little sects.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“I want to help you understand Buddhism from the ground-level, from a totally introductory standpoint, so that you can take from it what you’d like. This book isn’t to convert you to any religion (everyone knows that, as far as conversions go, Buddhists are probably the least likely), but it instead aims to guide you towards understanding what had been the dominant eastern religion for over 2,000 year.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“3 tbsp honey ¼ cup coconut oil, melted over a medium heat 1 tsp vanilla extract ½ cup shredded coconut ½ cup chopped macadamia nuts 1 ¼ cup almond flour ¼ tsp sea salt ¼ tsp baking soda ¼ cup dark chocolate chips / nibs, 100% cacao”
― Dominique Francon, Paleo: BAKING! Who Said You Couldn't Eat Cookies, Muffins And Pancakes? YOU CAN! - The Ultimate Paleo Diet Baking Guide to Unlock Weight Loss With Low ... Weight Loss, Primal Blueprint, Low Carb)

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“When we dematerialize our lives, we are admitting to ourselves the real world in which we live. We are facing reality headfirst and not distracting ourselves with smartphones or excess goods. We’re saving time to enjoy quality meals, vacation time and our children and families.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“that create Buddhism. But we’ll get there soon.”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“is because the stomach, to Buddhists, is the spiritually core of a person’s body; Buddhists don’t believe in “souls” per se, but they also believe in every part of the body attaching a spiritual”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Movement meditation involves incorporating the flow of movement into your thoughts”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace

“Zen monasteries are hidden away in the forested mountains of Japan, China and Korea. Monks live extremely sparse lives to remove all material wealth from themselves—they wear only robes, they shave their heads, they go for brisk pre-dawn hikes and eat mostly rice. It’s hard to get further away from materialism. Obviously nobody reading this book is going to do all that stuff, but we can still meet the monks partway, no? When we dematerialize our lives, we are admitting to ourselves the real world in which we live. We are facing reality headfirst and not distracting ourselves with smartphones or excess goods. We’re saving time to enjoy quality meals, vacation time and our children and families.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“Even if meditation doesn’t work for you, try going for walks more often. Clear your mind. Ease your anxieties. Actively try to do less. You’ll find that once you’ve blocked our the unnecessary tidbits from your life, you’ll have a lot more room to focus on the things that matter—yourself, your family and your friends.”
― Dominique Francon, Zen: For Beginners! - The Ultimate Zen Guide To a Happier, Simpler, More Fulfilling Buddhism Inspired Lifestyle

“in mysterious ways.” The big change in Buddhism is that it tries to define that problem and, instead”
― Dominique Francon, Buddhism: For Beginners! The Ultimate Guide To Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life - A Buddhism Approach For More Energy, Focus, And Inner Peace