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“Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“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.”
― Becoming Your Own Therapist
― Becoming Your Own Therapist
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
― Ways of Seeing
― 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.”
― Becoming Your Own Therapist
― Becoming Your Own Therapist
Palmo’s 2025 Year in Books
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