It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the house, washing dishes, checking the dipstick. . . such a round of chores is not a set of difficulties we hope to escape from so that we may do our practice, which will put us on the path. It is our path.
Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.
I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!