February 2012
16 posts
January 2012
58 posts
“To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give...”
– Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom” (via bookitreader)
“If the first part of your life was lived to the full, remember that at the time...”
– Dalai Lama Meditations on Growing Old (via ciananikon)
Insight from the Dalai Lama. 20/01/12
alex-webb:
‘Notice your attachments to food, clothes, and shelter and adapt monastic practices of contentment to a layperson’s life. Be satisfied with adequate food, clothing and shelter. Use the additional free time for meditation so that you can overcome more problems.’
- Dalai Lama
open-eyes-dreamer:
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering...”
– Tao Te Ching, chapter 33 by Lao Tze (via hyorinmaru)
“Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is...”
– Lao Tze (via cucoriedkovavila)
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
– Lao-tzu (via reallyphoebe)
“If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
– Lao-tzu (via reallyphoebe)
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete,...”
– Lao Tze (via butanol)
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of...”
– Confucius. (via jaynirv-health)
“Courage is knowing what’s right, and doing it.”
– Confucius (via bl4ckstatic)
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country...”
– Confucius (via socialistscum)
“Wisdom, compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral...”
– Confucius (via spacecash)
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering...”
– Tao Te Ching, chapter 33 by Lao Tze (via hyorinmaru)
splintersandmilkshakes:
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”
– Dalai Lama (via flow-like-the-wind)
“To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give...”
– Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom” (via bookitreader)
“Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains.”
– The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via flirtingwithfoolishness)
thevisionofislam:
According to Abu Hurayrah, a desert Arab came and urinated in the Prophet’s (pbuh) mosque. People then came running to beat him. The Prophet (pbuh), restraining them from doing so, said:
‘Pour a vessel of water over the place where he has urinated. You have been sent to make things easy for people, not to make things difficult’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
“Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via ismiledsweetly)
Ib KyJo: Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living →
ibkyjo:
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs:
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of…
“If the first part of your life was lived to the full, remember that at the time...”
– Dalai Lama Meditations on Growing Old (via ciananikon)
