Life Changing Book Quotes

“When you close your eyes, do you actually stop seeing?
Who is observing the darkness then?”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Emotions and feelings are like this sand. Circumstances are like the beach. You, my dear, are like your sunglasses. If you are in a dire circumstance, emotions and feelings, the less pleasurable ones, perhaps, the more painful ones will cling to you. On the other hand, if the circumstances you are in are the best, perhaps, the one with a lover or family, a pleasant set of emotions and feelings cling to your personality. Just like the sand clinging to your glasses is natural on a beach, emotions and feelings clinging to your personality are natural products of diverse circumstances.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“ Perhaps, it is the words, and in turn, the many meanings that divide us. Neither the body nor the mind; Neither the distance nor the time, just words.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Meditation is a transaction, you take back energy from the moments that drained you and give them a new meaning.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections.
Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Everything in that flow – the many pains and pleasures – are just an ephemeral burst of energy. At the end of it, they are as much on the fabric of nothingness as life. It means nothing. We mean nothing.
The atman has a purpose, not the identity we assume.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“The baggage of past memories, the present contradictions, and the many choices from the future. “They are all just words,” I say, as I become aware of my breath. My bong feels ignored, my mind feels betrayed and the incessant pain in my chest ceases. I drop everything.
I let go.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Our actions within, build our health. Our actions beyond, build our wealth.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“When we become self-aware, we realize what kind of partner will be happy with us. More than our happiness, we respect the happiness of the other, and in that, we find the right kind of love.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Our ego feeds on the validation of others, our self feeds on evolution with others. That our purpose, perhaps, is to survive but survival here is not to cut the throat of ‘others’ but to evolve with them.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Kill the Buddha. In the desire of becoming Buddha, you walk away from it. To desire peace is to invite conflict. To pursue calm is to ruffle up anger within. Don’t you get it? You are in conflict to remove conflict.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Desires incite thoughts. Thoughts transpire actions,” Buddha smiles, “I never say no to desire. To judge desire is to add words. To not desire is just an act in illusion.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Mistakes you must make, the pain you should face, cry you must for it is the journey. The journey is what it is all about,” Buddha says. “You are a human after all.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“A good book is like a guest. They stay with you for a while, and when they leave, you are still smiling, and thinking they left a little too soon. You will always remember their pleasant company; things they said that moved you and maybe changed your perspective You plan to invite them again so you can spend quality time together and when you invite them in, you are full of anticipation about the new discoveries you will make when you are together.”
― Suzy Davies