Robert Thurman Quotes
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.
Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.
That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.
More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
If someone gets a bigger house, does that automatically make them happy? Maybe for a second. But then they worry about the bigger house and how to take care of it.
If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.
Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we are close to are unhappy.
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.
You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.
True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.