But after you’ve eaten, sooner or later you will have to go to the bathroom. This is the physical manifestation of your personal entropy production.
“So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“The secret is not to “think” about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences and free of aversion to the negative ones.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Don’t worry about anything. Even if you find your attention wandering, there is no particular ‘thing’ you have to hold onto. Just let go, and drift in the awareness of the blessing. Don’t let small, niggling questions distract”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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