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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.
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There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
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Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called egolessness.
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This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
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