I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.
"Existence is sorrow. " Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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.
You try to give away what you want yourself.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it. . . " -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modesty is not one of my virtues.