Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. Nirvana is not a paradise or some special place of happiness, but is in fact the condition beyond all dualistic concepts, including those of happiness and suffering. When all our obstacles have been overcome, and we find ourselves in a state of total presence, the wisdom of enlightenment manifests spontaneously without limits, just like the infinite rays of the sun. The clouds have dissolved, and the sun is finally free to shine once again. . Namkhai Norbu
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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Hans Christian Andersen
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
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Jim Morrison
No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.
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Roy T. Bennett
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to...
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Cormac McCarthy
More Quotes By Namkhai Norbu
God is but a supernatural spirit. He resides dormant in you, until you awaken to liberate yourself from this ignorance that you are body and mind.
Awareness is above intellect. Intellect is above speech. Speech is above knowledge. For knowledge in itself is just a name.
Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought. Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action. Action to realization, and back again to thoughts. For the mind is made up of words, language and logic, until it dissolves into...
Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.
When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks, For mind can never be in balance. It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two.
