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If you can think for yourself while being open-minded in a clearheaded way to find out what is best for you to do, and if you can summon up the courage to do it, you will make the most of your life.
“No matter what we do, he taught, we cannot sustain the illusion of our self-sufficiency. We are all subject to decay, old age, and death, to disappointment, loss, and disease.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“In psychological terms, the Buddha’s first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“Actually, ownership is a thought process independent of the actual relationship that exists between us and objects in the world. Freeing ourselves from attachment to “ownership” frees us from our enslavement to objects.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“So many problems in the world—political and economic tensions and hostilities—are related to the thought, “This is my nation, my country.” In understanding that the concept is only the product of our own thought processes, we can begin to free ourselves from that attachment.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“We do not want to admit our lack of substance to ourselves and, instead, strive to project an image of completeness, or self-sufficiency. The paradox is that, to the extent that we succumb to this urge, we are estranged from ourselves and are not real. Our narcissism requires that we keep the truth about our selves at bay.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
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