"The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment."

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Source : FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

Sogyal Rinpoche

#Journey Quotes #Giving Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.”
“I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees' time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.”
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
“People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

Source : Interview with Dan Colen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.
“I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.”

Source : Johannes Itten, Bauhaus (1975). “Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus and later”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.”

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