A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities. . . . We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.