BUDDHA BUMPS

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[caseyboy69]

“Be commited, not attatched. But more importantly, know the difference.”

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Kai

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[thinkingthinkingthinkinggg]

[buddhabumps]

5 Enemies of the Self

1.desire

2. anger

3. ignorane

4. jealousy

5. Pride

[buddhabumps]

For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in a circle nearer and nearer to the beginning

Charles Dickens 

[buddhabumps]

one doesn’t find a relationship: one creates a relationship.

Irvin Yalom

[buddhabumps]

Don’t scratch where it doesn’t itch

Adolph Meyer

[buddhabumps]

History is fiction that did happen; whereas fiction is history that might have happened.

Andre Gide

[buddhabumps]

Often we are more in love with desire than the desired

Neitzsche 

[buddhabumps]

He who has a ‘why’ in life can put up with any ‘how'

Nietzsche 

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

ECKHART TOLLE  (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[buddhabumps]

CHILDHOOD IS A JOURNEY, NOT A RACE.

Anon

[buddhabumps]

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

A Chah

[buddhabumps]

1. Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.

Toni Morrison

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

T Rinpoche

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In the beginner’s mind there is no thought, whereas, “I have attained something.” is a self-centered thought that limits the mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners.

S Suzuki

[buddhabumps]

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

W Faulkner