Tag: wisdom

33 posts since September 2011 RSS

  • November 20th, 2012 7:24pm

    I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed. The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. Although I have found my own Buddhist religion helpful in generating love and compassion, even for those we consider our enemies, I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

    — His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in his speech of acceptance to the Peace Nobel Prize in 1989.

  • November 12th, 2012 10:26pm

    Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

    — Dalai Lama  (via anotherdeadhead)

  • October 25th, 2012 12:09am

    Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

    — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (via quotes-shape-us)

  • October 24th, 2012 1:47pm

    “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor”.

    — Aristotle (via thelittlephilosopher)

  • September 30th, 2012 2:52pm

    Well, the idea of a single protagonist, I never could understand too well. What I’ve felt is that problems are multi-personal, they involve us all, there’s no such thing as a private problem…it’s only a form of ignorance. When I wake up in the morning, and I fall over the chair and break my nose, and I’m broke, and my wife’s left me – it’s my ignorance that makes me thing I’m an entire universe and that these miseries are my own and they’re not affecting the rest of the world. If I could only look down from a satellite, I would see all the world, everybody getting up and, in some analogous way, falling over a chair and breaking something..

    — Philip K. Dick

  • September 7th, 2012 10:44am

    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

    — Plato (via thebiancasolderini)

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