Richard Heilbrunn

“The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once pointed out, “If you put one hundred percent of your heart into facing yourself, then you connect with this unconditional goodness. Whereas, if you only put fifty percent into the situation, you are trying to bargain with the situation, and nothing very much will happen.”
― Lodro Rinzler, Walk Like a Buddha: Even if Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again

“When you are resolving your mind, Do not hanker for the higher perceptions. There is the danger of being carried away by the maras of joy and pride. Son, rest in the state free from hope. Do you understand this, monk from Ü?*”
― Chogyam Trungpa, Milarepa: Lessons from the Life and Songs of Tibet's Great Yogi

“The fruitional aspect of mindfulness practice is when we finally stop wanting others to be different than they actually are. This”
― Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred

“Art in everyday life is the deepening or intensifying of experience that gives new significance to the ordinary things of our world. It is feeling the breath of life pulsating in and through the ordinary events and activities of our everyday world. We might regain a childlike sensitivity to the immediate freshness of this moment. Here we are unashamedly more fully alive, already enjoying an abundant life which can no longer be exhausted.”
― Ira Rechtshaffer, Mindfulness and Madness: Money, Food, Sex And The Sacred