Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

The most profound and the only truly effective and unmistaken political activity is the profound spiritual influence that arises out of true, unmistaken meditative awareness, which is nondual, nonconceptual meditative awareness, which is primordial awareness, original wisdom, mahamudra and dzogchen

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Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

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A safe cigarette is one that cannot be smoked, or one you leave unsmoked in the pack.

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Le tabac est le serial-killer le plus efficace jamais inventé par l’homme, tuant un fumeur sur deux.

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

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Τα άτομα με μεγαλύτερη ευφυΐα και ικανότητες είναι λιγότερο πιθανό να ξοδεύουν πολύ χρόνο στην κοινωνικοποίηση, επειδή επικεντρώνονται σε κάποιον άλλο στόχο που είναι μακροπρόθεσμος

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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

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Η τέχνη δεν διασφαλίζει το ζην, αλλά το ευ ζην

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By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.

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Want the best. The highest happiness, the greatest freedom. Desirelessness is the highest bliss. (…) Only God’s energy is infinite – because he wants nothing for Himself. Be like Him and all your desires will be fulfilled. The higher your aims and vaster desires, the more energy you will have for their fulfillment. Desire the good of all and the universe will work for you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way.

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My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain. (…) for the sake of pleasure you are committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death

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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention

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Με ποιο δικαίωμα η θρησκεία, ο νόμος, η ιατρική επιλέγουν πριν από μένα για μένα πότε και πώς επιτρέπεται να πεθάνω; Με ποιο δικαίωμα οι εξουσίες που θέλουν να οριοθετούν τη ζωή μας μας αφαιρούν και την ελευθερία επιλογής στο θάνατό μας;

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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

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Δεν υπάρχει κάποια θρησκεία που να επιτρέπει την αυτοκτονία. Η ισχύς των θρησκειών είναι ο φόβος του θανάτου.

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Big data is like big tobacco. Presumed to be safe for decades and when we understood the cancer it brought, it was hard for people to quit.

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Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.

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