“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
(Source: moreofamore)
“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.”
(Source: nirvikalpa)
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.”
(Source: nirvikalpa)
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
“This year, rather than looking on attaining goals outside of yourself: completing school, purchasing that new ride, or taking a trip to another country, and so on; why not attain goals within: composure, patience, optimism, self-esteem, gratefulness, honesty with others and yourself, and so on. These are indispensable qualities which will eventually translate into those outer accomplishments that you originally desire.”
(Source: commondense)
“A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.”
(Source: nirvikalpa)
“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect any praise or reward. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom. Your struggles with the world will have come to an end.”
(Source: nirvikalpa)
(Source: wolfmama)
(Source: icanread)
Louis CK on being bored:
“’I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. And even the inside of your own mind is endless. It goes on forever inwardly. Do you understand? Being the Fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to be bored.”
“Imagine that every being in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.”
The greatest support we can have is mindfulness, which means being totally present in each moment. If the mind remains centered, it cannot make up stories about the injustice of the world or one’s friends, or about one’s desires or sorrows. All these stories could fill many volumes, but when we are mindful such verbalizations stop. Being mindful means being fully absorbed in the moment, leaving no room for anything else . We are filled with the momentary happening, whatever it is - standing or sitting or lying down, feeling pleasure or pain - and we maintain a nonjudgmental awareness, a “just knowing.”
Ayya Khema.
Photo by onnola.
Forms Of Love In Buddhism by Ajahn Brahm
(Source: dhammaloka.org.au)
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
○: Osho on Education:
Our whole education is rotten. It certainly makes you clerks, stationmasters, postmen, police commissioners. It gives you a livelihood, but it does not give you life, and it does not give you love.
One-third of our education should be concerned with livelihood; one-third of our education should…
