But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.
Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.