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“You have come to a point that reason cannot go beyond, and the beyond remains. Now you know that reason cannot take a single step further and yet the “further” remains. Even if you decide to remain with reason, a boundary is created. You know that existence is beyond the boundary of reason, so even if you do not go beyond this boundary, you become a mystic. Even if you do not take the jump you become a
mystic because you have known something, you have encountered something that was not rational at all.”
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mystic because you have known something, you have encountered something that was not rational at all.”
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“Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.”
― The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
― The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
“Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying:
We die whenever fear governs our choices.
We die when we sacrifice growth for security.
We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.”
― A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
We die whenever fear governs our choices.
We die when we sacrifice growth for security.
We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.”
― A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
“In your relationships you sacrificed your autonomy to gain security and wound up with neither.”)”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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