If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!