"We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new."

"People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same — and the consequence of that is pain."
(Paulo Coelho)

“The mind sent outside
is the origination of suffering.

The result of the mind sent outside is suffering.

The mind seeing the mind is the path.

The result of the mind seeing the mind is the cessation of suffering.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"I am not a foreigner, because I haven’t been praying to return safely home. I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received."
(Paulo Coelho)

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
(Edward Abbey)

“In the area of the world, you have things that you have. In the area of the Dhamma, you have something you don’t have.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"Two things must be completely avoided during training. We should never harm anyone through deeds, thoughts or words intentionally or not. Secondly, the feeling of hate must disappear in us, otherwise it reappears as a feeling of fear; for fear is suppressed hate. We must transform the hate into a feeling of love, the love of wisdom."
(Rudolph Steiner)

"Virtue and wisdom are sublime things, but if they create pride and a consciousness of separateness from the rest of humanity, they are only the snakes of self reappearing in a finer form."
(Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)