Minh Phan

“If you learn without thinking about what you have learned, you will be lost. If you think without learning, however, you will fall into danger.”
― Anonymous

“Seeing the world with all the unspoiled simplicity of a young child, you are free from concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and no longer fall prey to conflicting tendencies driven by desire or repulsion. Why trouble yourself about all the ups and downs of daily life, like a child who delights in building a sand castle but cries when it collapses? To get what they want and be rid of what they dislike, look how people throw themselves into torments, like moths plunging into the flame of a lamp! Would it not be better to put down your heavy burden of dreamlike obsessions once and for all? ”
― Dilgo Khyentse, The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

“All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.”
― Śāntideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

“Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.”
― Sakyong Mipham, Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life