"What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?" (Jack Kerouac)

"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present." (Albert Camus)

To be interested just in study can’t bring release from suffering. You have to be interested in the practice of training the mind as well. All 84,000 sections of the Dhamma came out of the Buddha’s mind. Everything comes out of the mind. Whatever you want to know, you can look for it in the mind. (Ajahn Dune)

"No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

We should understand that the Dhamma taught by the Buddha doesn’t lie anywhere far away. As the Canon says, skillful and unskillful dhammas arise right here in the heart. If we want to study the Dhamma, we have to study our own heart. When we’re well acquainted with the heart, we’ll be well acquainted with the Dhamma. When we’re well acquainted with the Dhamma, we’ll be well acquainted with the heart.

There are times when the heart is in bad shape. Bad mental qualities get mixed up with it, making it even worse, making us suffer both in body and mind. These bad mental qualities are said to be “unskillful” (akusala). The Buddha teaches us to study these qualities so that we can abandon them. (Ajahn Suwat)

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)

"Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing." (Albert Camus)