- Meditation helps me stay cool and focused. My mind feels more organized afterwards.
- “Our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
- “We don’t realize our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
- “The honeymoon ends”
- There is no never-ending fountain.
- Love and hatred cannot coexist.
- It’s a gift. Lemonade.
- “The wisdom of not-doing.”
- Freedom’s edge is a razor.
- Happiness is never expecting we will be happy again.
- In the end, nobody and no thing can go with you.
- Life is ultimately unsatisfactory [lottery winners].
- “A picture of a dog is not the dog.” Nannette
- Sensual desire can be mistaken as romantic love.
- “When hungry eat, when tired sleep.” Zen proverb
- “Pause.” Tara Brach
- Thinking is suffering.
- Embrace the 4 Friends: Loving-kindness, equanimity, compassion, sympathetic joy.
- Shun the 5 hindrances: sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt.
- Withstand the 8 Worldly Winds: Praise and Blame, Gain and Loss, Success and Failure, Pleasure and Pain.
- “All experience is preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind.” Gil Fronsdal’s transl. Dhammadapa
- “Consciousness is like a magic show” Siddhartha Gautama
- “This world arises from imagination… it is unreal.” Nagarjuna
- “If you had everything you need, would you know?” Tuere Sala
