"If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving."

-- Ram Dass

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Enlightened Quotes

“You can fight based on a strong mind, based on developing your muscles and reflexes, training your motor functions and going back again. Having a strong enough mind to actually put them into action. This is not actually terribly different from what an Olympic athlete does - and essentially describes the process of becoming an Olympic athlete.”
“You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.”
“Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.”
“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
“Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!”
“I don't want to disappear.”
“If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.”
“When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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