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“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
― When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Once we visit death, once we see the beauty waiting for us, our fear’s gone. Used to be never a book written, of our experience with dying. Now there are shelves, waiting to be read. The beliefs, the experiences of so many others, now.”
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
“What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...”
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
“What is essential, you can see, is to realize now, in life, when we still have a body, that its apparent, so convincing solidity is a mere illusion. The most powerful way to realize this is to learn how, after meditation, to “become a child of illusion”: to refrain from solidifying, as we are always tempted to do, the perceptions of ourselves and our world; and to go on, like the “child of illusion,” seeing directly, as we do in meditation, that all phenomena are illusory and dream like. The deepening perception of the body’s illusory nature is one of the most profound and inspiring realizations we can have to help us to let go.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“In the end, there are some people it makes sense to trust.’ ‘Why?’ He had no idea where this line of questioning had come from nor where it might lead them, but he sensed the seriousness with which she was pursuing it. ‘Because there are some people, still, who can be trusted absolutely. We have to believe that’s so.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because if we don’t find at least someone we can trust absolutely, then, well, we’re made less by not having them. And by not having the experience of trusting them.’ He wasn’t exactly sure what he meant by this, or perhaps he was just doing a bad job of explaining what it was he did mean, but he knew he felt that he would be a lesser man if there were no one into whose hands he would put himself.”
― Wilful Behavior
― Wilful Behavior
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