Thubten Palmo

“he knows you, and he's talking to you, but you're in pain and you cannot understand him.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Problems exist in the minds of individuals. You have to solve your own problems, no matter what kind of society you live in—socialist, communist or capitalist. You must check your own mind. Your problem is not society’s problem, not my problem. You are responsible for your own problems just as you’re responsible for your own liberation or enlightenment.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“Lord Buddha himself taught that basically, human nature is pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature clear, not cloudy. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there; clouds don’t alter the fundamental nature of the sky. Similarly, the human mind is fundamentally pure.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist