The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
// Thich Nhat Hanh
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MIND: Onward
Can you take the pain and go somewhere?
Can you make it a journey?
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir // Lidia Yuknavitch
MIND: Power of Prose
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately,
and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
// Alan W. Watts
MIND: Recondition
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
// Alan W. Watts
MIND: Evolve
What you are now is the result of what you were.
What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now.
// Dhammapada
MIND: Fiery
Self-love is the foundation for your capacity to love the other person.
If you don’t take good care of yourself, if you are not happy, if you are not peaceful, you cannot make the other person happy.
You cannot help the other person; you cannot love.
Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself.
// Thich Nhat Hanh
MIND: Scales
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
// Thich Nhat Hanh
MIND: Bad Habits
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
// Mahatma Gandhi
MIND: Deserving
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
// Gautama Buddha
MIND: Simplicity
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are red-hot and you can’t hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that’s all.
The Dharma Bums // Jack Kerouac
