“ Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success. ”
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“ We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ”
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“ Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. ”
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“ As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace. ”
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“ Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. ”
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“ The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion. ”
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“ As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace. ”
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“ Accepting death as a part of life serves as a spur to diligence and saves us from wasting our time on vain distractions. ”
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“ The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. ”
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“ We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ”
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“ Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a wellbalanaced and truly compassionate human being? ”
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“ According to the philosopher Andre ComteSponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy. ”
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“ If we think of happiness as a way of being, a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life, that pervades all the emotional states, including sadness. We think of sadness as incompatible with pleasure, but it’s compatible with what? With altruism, with inner strength, with inner freedom, with sense of direction and meaning in life — those aren’t sad things. But if you don’t fall in despair, still you maintain that wholeness and that sense of purpose and meaning. ”
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