A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.
If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.
Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.
If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.
Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.
large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.