Book Quotes
Great quotes from great books.
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Adyashanti
- Daniel E.
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“Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is... -
Mother Teresa
- Daniel E.
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“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of not belonging.” ~ Mother Teresa -
Scott Kiloby
- Daniel E.
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“Life is like a dream but we treat it like a fixed, objective reality and this is why we suffer.” -
Joseph Needham
- Daniel E.
- Views: 308
“While European philosophy tended to find reality in substance, Chinese philosophy tended to find it in relation.” ~ Joseph Needham (1962) -
Impermanence
- Daniel E.
- Views: 348
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. We need to learn to... -
Warren Buffet
- Daniel E.
- Views: 327
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over." ~ Warren Buffet -
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Russ Harris (Co-Founder of ACT)
- Daniel E.
- Views: 496
From The Reality Slap: "Most of us are ill-equipped to deal with large reality gaps. Our society doesn’t teach us how to handle them or, rather... -
William W. Purkey
- Daniel E.
- Views: 407
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s... -
Barry Brody, PhD, LMFT
- Daniel E.
- Views: 343
"I have begun to wonder if the broken record is really a life raft." "We all have things we shy away from. If we get really good at it, we don’t... -
Heath Ledger
- Daniel E.
- Views: 342
"You know when you see the preachers down South? And they grab a believer and they go, 'Bwoom! I touch you with the hand of God!' And they believe... -
Alan Cohen
- Daniel E.
- Views: 352
"Your experience of peace is in inverse proportion to the length of your story." "Seeking to create perfection in the outer world should not be a... -
Metacognitive Therapy
- Daniel E.
- Views: 372
“Therefore, it's not WHAT we're thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking.” ― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe... -
Icelandic sayings
- Daniel E.
- Views: 429
Þetta reddast. (It’ll all work out in the end.). This is Iceland's unofficial motto. Áfram með smjörið! (On with the butter!) This is a common... -
Jerry Seinfeld
- Daniel E.
- Views: 333
“The blessing in life is when you find the torture you are comfortable with. That’s marriage, it’s kids, it’s work, it’s exercise. Find the... -
Alan Cohen
- Daniel E.
- Views: 318
"Identify with the changeless, and you cannot be touched by the transient." ~ Alan Cohen -