"When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice"

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Source : Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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“When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.”
“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earthâ€”and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”
“The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.”
“You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons.”
“The latest thing that has caught me by surprise is Maryanne Amacher. I like sound that affects the listener physically. Traits such as complexity or simplicity don't really become a factor then. It's just the sound that I pay attention to.”

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“I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.”
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
“Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.”

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