Quotes of Sogyal Rinpoche - somelinesforyou

“ You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ The act of meditation is being spacious. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise, fly and soar. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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

“ The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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. Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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

“ What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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

“ What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche

“ 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

“ 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

“ Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ”

- Sogyal Rinpoche
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