#buddhism

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #wisdom #art

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#patience #psychology #spirituality #art

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#healing #health #health-care #psychology #art

Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #mindfulness #art

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#buddhism #destiny #humanism #inspirational #karma

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. ↗

— Byron Katie

#psychology #change

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself? ↗

— Śāntideva

#philosophy #equality

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #meditation #mindfulness #experience

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#happiness #experience

The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and happiness, brought about by purely mental means, which thereby automatically eclipses any pleasure arising in dependence on material objects. Thus absorption functions as a powerful antidote to sensual desires by divesting them of their former attraction. ↗

— Anālayo

#meditation #samadhi #vipassana #experience