"The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice."

-- Russell Simmons

#Buddhist Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into the windows of homes, And shops, and factories. It has beheld cities with gleaming towers, And also the hovels of the poor. It has been witness to both good and evil, The works of honest men and women and The conspiracy of knaves. It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Now, unsullied from its tireless journey, It comes to us, Messenger of the morning. Harbinger of a new day.”
“My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!”

Source : "'I was Casanova's very first lover'" by Laura Baggaley, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
“Kill the ones that eat us. Eat the ones we kill”
“I find that life just gets in the way and it gets so busy and there's so much chaos and stress that can come along with raising two teenage girls in Los Angeles and being married and working and, you know, everything that goes along with it. It's how do you find those calm moments, because everybody has this in their life.”
“Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.”
“My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.”
“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”

Source : "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.
“Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.”

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