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“I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.”
― The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
― The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
“In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding”
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“Each of us is a product of our family, environment, friends, education, culture, and society. These conditions lead to a certain way of seeing things and a certain way of responding to things. When we see this, we have compassion for everyone, including ourselves. We see that if we want something to change, we also have to help change his or her family, environment, friends, education, culture, and society. We are responsible, directly or indirectly, for each person's consciousness attitudes.”
― Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake
― Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake
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