“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”
― The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
― The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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