#buddhism

Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #mindfulness #art

The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#healing #health #inspirational #living #positive-attitude

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#buddhism #destiny #humanism #inspirational #karma

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. ↗

— Byron Katie

#psychology #change

From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change. ↗

— Pat Allwright

#change #change

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#healing #health #knowledge #meditation #change

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.' ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#detachment #experience

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#food

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence