"One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him."

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Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

Nichiren

#Mind Quotes #Should Quotes #Masters Quotes

“I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.”
“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
“The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.”
“The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.”
“It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.”
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.”
“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.”
“The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .”

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