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Suddenly the Buddha's First Noble Truth which she had learnt when she first encountered Buddhism struck her with renewed force. 'I thought, "Why are you still looking for happiness in Samsara? and my mind just changed around.
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“For many have won a great name through the mistaken beliefs of the multitude—and what can be imagined more shameful than that?”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
“No one could doubt that God is omnipotent.’
‘No one, at any rate, who is in his right mind would have any doubt about it.’
‘But there is nothing that an omnipotent power could not do?’
‘No.’
‘Then, can God do evil?’
‘No.’
‘So that evil is nothing, since that is what He cannot do who can do anything.”
― Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy;
‘No one, at any rate, who is in his right mind would have any doubt about it.’
‘But there is nothing that an omnipotent power could not do?’
‘No.’
‘Then, can God do evil?’
‘No.’
‘So that evil is nothing, since that is what He cannot do who can do anything.”
― Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy;
“There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.”
― As It Is, Volume II
― As It Is, Volume II
“It is no wonder then if the winds storm around us on the ocean of this life, since our greatest imperative is to displease the wicked. But we should despise the wicked even if they are a great multitude, for they are governed by no leader, but are blindly pulled in all directions by frantic error.”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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