NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 899

 

• ·       “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~ Alan Watts

  ·       “You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.” ~ D. T. Suzuki

  ·       “We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement.'” ~ Chögyam Trungpa

  ·       “Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act.” ~ Gil Fronsdal

  ·       “If one understands that the only thing that remains timeless is the richness of one’s own buddha nature, one can relax even with regard to death.” ~ Lama Ole Nydahl

  ·       “Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life—not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.” ~ Surya Das