#Shining Quotes #Gaps Quotes
“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”
“Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.”
“In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.”
“When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.”
“Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.”
“There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon.”
“Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.”
“A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.”
Dalai Lama
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Poet
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Gampopa
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure
Jamgon Kongtrul Writer
Je Tsongkhapa
Thrangu Rinpoche
Tilopa