Melanie Robin

“We need to learn how to live consciously and, trusting ourselves, purposefully on that inevitable balance point between form and emptiness, relative and absolute, being and non-being, self and non-self, time and eternity, the finite and infinite. It is between all such dichotomies and poles that our life actually flows.”
― Lama Surya Das

“pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.”
― Lama Surya Das, The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life's Essential Mysteries

“We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know.”
― Lama Surya Das

“You don’t need to see different things, but rather to see things differently.”
― Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment