My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my life, is my home.
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.
It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket. " The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.