Peter Terpstra

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“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
― Pema Chodron

tags: buddhism, shambhala

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“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

tags: buddhism, happiness, peace

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“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced

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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind

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“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai-lama, happiness, harm-reduction

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