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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f345f2 | First, you'd discover that the monster was not real. You'd realize that it was just an illusion that you never had anything to fear in the first place. You'd see that the monster had no teeth. This would be an incredible triumph. | discovery fear monsters panic panic-attacks | David D. Burns | |
| 267a7dc | In my experience the most crucial predictor of recovery is a persistent willingness to exert some effort to help yourself. Given this attitude, you will succeed. | David D. Burns | ||
| 829cd52 | Pride and Shame. Intimacy requires humility and the willingness to examine your own failures in your relationships. This can be painful because feelings of shame get in the way, especially when we care about the person who's criticizing us and we sense that her criticisms are true. We don't want to hear it. So instead of listening and acknowledging the truth in the criticism, we put up a wall and get defensive. We tell ourselves that the ot.. | David D. Burns | ||
| 7bc60d8 | somewhere, I can leave the Exeter without burning any bridges." I was surprised and touched. Gary was putting his career on hold on the off chance we could continue to work together. "Don't you want a ship of your own?" "Me with absolute power?" he said, with a smirk. "Don't you think that'd be a little dangerous?" | David A. Goodman | ||
| 292d271 | Characteristics of Healthy, Constructive Anger Characteristics of Unhealthy, Destructive Anger 1. You express your feelings in a tactful way. 1. You deny your feelings and pout (passive aggression) or lash out and attack the other person (active aggression). 2. You try to see the world through the other person's eyes, even if you disagree. 2. You argue defensively and insist there's no validity in what the other person is saying. 3. You con.. | David D. Burns | ||
| ffeffcf | Previous experience, however, tells us that every so-called unbreakable cipher has, sooner or later, succumbed to cryptanalysis | Simon Singh | ||
| fdd5c80 | Quantum cryptography would mark the end of the battle between codemakers and codebreakers, the codemakers emerging victorious, because quantum cryptography is a truly unbreakable system of encryption. | Simon Singh | ||
| b54e737 | First of all," said Serafim, "there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement." | Dan Millman | ||
| 5c740bc | The birth of the mind is the death of the senses -- it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy! | Dan Millman | ||
| 8c563db | Between God and man, between the gospel and each soul, the interpreter is Love. | Alexandre Vinet | ||
| b9cc664 | All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind. | Mark Shepard | ||
| be9b6b8 | You don't always need friends. Sometimes it's enough to have a witness. | Thom Mark Shepard | ||
| 7855e0f | The nature of mind is just too close to be recognized. Just as we are unable to see our own face, mind finds it difficult to look into its own nature. 2. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| e19ada8 | Too-subtle visual cues are actually a very common problem. Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. | Steve Krug | ||
| 888aafb | Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing to mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.8 | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 53416d0 | And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| df6288e | Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| a8ee75a | Notre societe est vouee presque exclusivement au culte de l'ego et a ses tristes fantasmes de reussite et de pouvoir ; elle celebre les forces memes d'avidite et d'ignorance qui sont en train de detruire notre planete. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 90e4e3b | Pour commencer a luy oster son plus grand avantage contre nous, prenons voye toute contraire a la commune. Ostons luy l'estrangete, pratiquons-la, accoustumons-la, n'ayant rien si souvent en la teste que la mort... | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| d3cc52b | La naissance d'un homme est la naissance de sa douleur. Plus il vit longtemps et plus il devient stupide, parce que son angoisse d'eviter une mort inevitable s'intensifie sans relache. Quelle amertume ! Il vit pour ce qui est toujours hors de portee ! Sa soif de survie dans le futur le rend incapable de vivre dans le present. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 7fb9211 | Buddhist monk Sogyal Rinpoche put it this way: "Perhaps it is only those who understand just how fragile life is who know how precious it is." | Lionel Fisher | ||
| c9699ef | The successive existences in a series of rebirths are not like the pearls in a pearl necklace, held together by a string, the "soul," which passes through all the pearls; rather they are like dice piled one on top of the other. Each die is separate, but it supports the one above it, with which it is functionally connected. Between the dice there is no identity, but conditionality.14" | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 3fa8777 | The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only, as we discovered, of all the different levels of consciousness and of all the different experiences of consciousness, both in life and death, but also perhaps of the actual nature of the universe itself" | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 323213d | As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself." | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 6919779 | The posture we take when we meditate signifies that we are linking absolute and relative, sky and ground, heaven and earth, like two wings of a bird, integrating the skylike, deathless nature of mind and the ground of our transient, mortal nature. The | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| ae6585d | What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 84db875 | Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing any clinging to experiences of joy, nor being overcome by sad situations. In so doing, you try to reach and remain in the state of great equilibrium, where all good and bad, peace and distress, are devoid of true identity. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| f66ec52 | Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.10 | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 0a871f0 | The simplicity of total trust is one of the most powerful forces in the world. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| c491b1a | Rimpoche, mira que pulcro y que limpio lo tienen todo en Occidente. Hasta los lugares donde depositan los cadaveres estan inmaculados. En Oriente, ni siquiera las casas donde vive la gente estan tan limpias. -Ah, si - replico el-, es verdad; es un pais muy civilizado. Tienen casas maravillosas para los cadaveres de los muertos. Pero, ?no te has fijado? Tambien tienen casas muy bonitas para los cadaveres de los vivos. | muerte vida | Sogyal Rinpoche | |
| f5a65cf | There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| dc02f69 | What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that from contemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of change and impermanence, we come slowly to find ourselves face to face, in gratitude and joy, with the truth of the changeless, with the truth of the deathless, unending nature of mind! | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 310093a | Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature of mind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature of everything. It can never be said too often that to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| f4612d6 | Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them. | death-and-dying death-quotes end-of-life | Sogyal Rinpoche | |
| 68a8b9f | Whatever we do, with our body, speech or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. The results of our actions are often delayed. What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 9eab6ae | If they can in their proposals write the word Nano, the chances for funding increase. | Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | ||
| 8118cd7 | The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 22c7795 | Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion for security on which we have built everything. Slowly it dawns on us that all the heartache we have been through from grasping at the ungraspable was, in the deepest sense, unnecessary. At the beginning this too may be painful to accept, because it seems so unfamiliar. But as we refl.. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| b8d0871 | What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise! | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| f7f8d35 | Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 2579a3f | When Satyagraha worked, both sides won. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 343969e | Gandhi believed that the means of struggle a people used would shape the society that grew out of the struggle. | Mark Shepard | ||
| c61dc7b | When they went into solitude, followed a spiritual practice, and truly faced themselves and the fact of death, they were healed. What is this telling us? That when we accept death, transform our attitude toward life, and discover the fundamental connection between life and death, a dramatic possibility for healing can occur. Tibetan Buddhists believe that illnesses like cancer can be a warning, to remind us that we have been neglecting deep.. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 08bf987 | Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom. | Sogyal Rinpoche |