Tenzin Palmo Quotes

“Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.”
― Vicki Mackenzie, Cave in the Snow

“People, especially family, get upset if you are not attached to them but that's only because we confuse love and attachment all the time.”
― Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the Snow

“What do people think spiritual development is? It's not lights and trumpets. It's very simple. It's right here and now. People have this idea that Enlightenment and realization is something in the distance- a very fantastic and magnificent happening which will transform everything once and for always. But it's not like that at all. It's something which is sometimes so simple you hardly see it. It's right here in front of us, so close we don't notice it. And it's something which can happen at any moment. And the moment we see it, there it is. It's been there all the time, but we've had our inner eye closed. When the moments of awareness all link up - then we become a Buddha.”
― Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the Snow

“she teaches that 'being' is often
better than 'doing' and that taking time out to be still and
think is often a better investment for future productivity than
cramming every waking moment with feverish activity.”
― Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the Snow

“It’s like a dance. And we have to give each being space to dance their dance. Everything is dancing; even the molecules inside the cells are dancing. But we make our lives so heavy. We have these incredibly heavy burdens we carry with us like rocks in a big rucksack. We think that carrying this big heavy rucksack is our security; we think it grounds us. We don’t realize the freedom, the lightness of just dropping it off, letting it go. That doesn’t mean giving up relationships; it doesn’t mean giving up one’s profession, or one’s family,or one’s home. It has nothing to do with that; it’s not an external change. It’s an internal change. It’s a change from holding on tightly to holding very lightly.
– Tenzin Palmo
from the book "Into The Heart Of Life”
― Tenzin Palmo