"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day."
The Dalai Lama (via lazyyogi)

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About Buddhism

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The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)

"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama (via gutsandgumption)

"Attachment is the very opposite of love. Love says, ‘I want you to be happy.’ Attachment says, ‘I want you to make me happy."
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (via sprngl)

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."
Deepak Chopra (via prima-volta)

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"You’ll swoop from incredible highs when you’re just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you’ve accepted who you are, that changes too. Because who you are is not permanent."
Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle (via roughandtumbling)

"How sad it is that most of us only begin to appreciate our life when we are on the point of dying. I often think of the words of the great Buddhist master Padmasambhava: ‘Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn’t it far too late?’ What more chilling commentary on the modern world could there be than that most people die unprepared for death, as they have lived, unprepared for life?"
The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche (via ediver)

"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."
Dalai Lama (via bento-butt)

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"In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change."
Buddha’s Little Instruction Book by Jack Kornfield (via julianbailey)
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