“We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us”
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
“How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.”
― The Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
― The Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
“Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.”
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
“Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?”
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“To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.”
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
― Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
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