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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the Ox that draws the cart. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. You can't get there from here, and besides there is no place to go. We are already dying, and we'll be dead a long time. Nothing lasts! There is no way of getting all you want. You can't have anything unless you let go of it. You only get to keep what you give away. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there's no compensation for misfortune...

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. I have a couple of her books and admire her immensely. This last week she...

Krishnamurti says that all it takes is an instant "seeing" of the things as they are. Not thinking or idealizing or pursuing or progressing towards other things or ideals but just "seeing" things as they are in this very moment. This is opposite to the psychological evolution that most operate under. Psychological evolution is the problem...

"Like two birds of beautiful golden plumage--inseparable companions-- the individual self and the immortal Atman are perched on the branches of the self-same tree. The former tastes the sweet and bitter fruits of the tree. The latter remains motionless,...

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins.Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and...

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want...