“When thoughts come up, touch them very lightly, like a feather touching a bubble. Let the whole thing be soft and gentle, but at the same time precise.”
― The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
― The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
“we ourselves can sort out what to accept and what to reject. We can discern what will make us complete, sane, grown-up people, and what—if we are too involved in it—will keep us children forever. This is the process of making friends with ourselves and with our world. It involves not just the parts we like, but the whole picture, because it all has a lot to teach us.”
― The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
― The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
“Krishnamurti becomes very relevant. Because for him the mind that is capable of producing harmony between nations – groups of human beings – is inseparable from the mind that brings about harmony between two human beings. There is no division between the two activities in a mind that is fully aware.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.”
― The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence
― The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence
“But death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
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