Sogyal Rinpoche quotes and words of wisdom

"Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category"
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world. All that we are will rise with our thoughts."
Found in the topic Education.

"So ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has "
Found in the topic Ego.

Interesting Quotes

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain - US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.Edward Kennedy