We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes From Sogyal Rinpoche Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhistyogaspiritual The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. Sogyal Rinpoche meditation-practiceyogainspirational Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom. Sogyal Rinpoche realletting-gobelieve The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others. Sogyal Rinpoche heartfeltthings-in-lifecommunication Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhismissuesreal Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow. Sogyal Rinpoche speakmindhappiness 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. Sogyal Rinpoche spiritualwisetwo The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity. Sogyal Rinpoche simplicitybalancekeys To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties. Sogyal Rinpoche warriorspiritualmean There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat, I hear the sound of impermanence. These changes, these small deaths, are our living links with death. They are death's pulses, death's heartbeat, prompting us to let go of all the things we cling to. Sogyal Rinpoche dyingletting-godeath Learning to live is learning to let go. Sogyal Rinpoche learn-to-let-golearningletting-go When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche encouragementspiritualdeath True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe. Sogyal Rinpoche spiritualityrealaction The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment. Sogyal Rinpoche meditationjourneygiving Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar Sogyal Rinpoche strongdarkclouds Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche oceanmeditationmind We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhisthomebelieve Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. Sogyal Rinpoche mirrorsdyingdeath There is no armor like perseverance. Sogyal Rinpoche armorperseverance So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go. Sogyal Rinpoche letting-goinspiringorder
