#his

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#confusion #discovery #enlightenment #philosophy #self-discovery

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight. ↗

— Saigyō

#buddhism

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss. ↗

— Saigyō

#buddhism

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one. ↗

— Wei Wu Wei

#happiness #buddhism

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#mindfulness #psychology #buddhism

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside. ↗

— Anonymous

#self-awareness #v- #self-awareness

She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was. ↗

— Sarah Sundin

#romance #world-war- #historical-romance

We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them. ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#bradwell #apocalypse

Dobro srce katkad je čovjeku i narodu jedini neprijatelj. ↗

— Marija Jurić Zagorka

#historical-romance

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. ↗

— Lawrence Anthony

#endangered-species #environmentalism #science #science