Reb Anderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Helping others entails learning how you are helped. In order to heal others, you must learn to heal yourself. Learning how to give to yourself is part of learning how to give to others. If you are stingy with yourself, you will be stingy with others. When you understand how everything is given to you, you will be able to give everything to others.
-- Reb Anderson

#Helping Others #Order #Giving
By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.
-- Reb Anderson

#Understanding #Vision #Acting
According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.
-- Reb Anderson

#Teaching #Practice #Normal
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.
-- Reb Anderson

#Way #Liberation
If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.
-- Reb Anderson

#Sex #Passion #Facts
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
-- Reb Anderson

#Mean #Enlightenment #Example
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.
-- Reb Anderson

#Release #Feels #Willing
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
-- Reb Anderson

#Fundamentals #Belief #Delusion

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Reb Anderson famous quotes

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