The Buddhist viewpoint has consistently demonstrated [that]
it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines
whether a given experience perpetuates suffering
or is a vehicle for awakening
Mark Epstein
See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
Ryokan
The first day of a new season in the old Celtic calendar
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..
Let us be joyous.
Dogen
If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”
Then the self who suffers
is not constructed
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893 – 1952
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