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"Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy."
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"Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and " evenmuch more " accumulated knowledge."
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Personal Development
"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
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Personal Development
"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."
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Personal Development
"Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!"
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Personal Development
"You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher."
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Personal Development
"Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent."
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Personal Development
"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"
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Personal Development
"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."
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Personal Development
"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."
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Personal Development
"Don't promise when you're happy, don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad."
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"Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm."
Time
"Without giving up hope-that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be-we will never relax with where we are or who we are."
Hope
"As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'"
Meditation
"Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn't last forever."
Wisdom
"The first noble truth says simply that it's part of being human to feel discomfort."
Wisdom
"Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are."
Meditation
"We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience."
Meditation
"In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!"
Meditation
"Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess."
Meditation
"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
Healing
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