"Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity."

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Source : "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, 1992.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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“If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.”
“Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.”
“I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.”
“Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.”
“I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.”

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“What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?”
“Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.”
“Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!”

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