"When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within."

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

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#Mind Quotes #Contentment Quotes #Turbulence Quotes

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
“There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.”

Source : Song: Only One And Only, Album: Revival
“Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.”
“I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.”

Source : "Amy Winehouse would be a great Doctor" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.
“If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.”
“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)”
“Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.”
“A good product can last forever.”

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