"Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze."

-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#Morning Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.”
“As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.”
“Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.”
“...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.”
“There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.”

Source : "Do Catholics have a religious duty to protect the Earth?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 18, 2015.
“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.”

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