Don’t conclude that your mind is significantly different from anyone else’s. We all have this monkey mind. Once we put the monkey under the magnifying glass, the mind commonly appears crazier than ever. It’s not. You are just allowing yourself to become acquainted with how crazy it has always been. This is great news.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World:
- Stay with what is
- Meditative awareness
- Beyond habitual patterns
- Fundamentally pure and good
- Replace longing with love
- The masks that hide our true selves
- The chattering voice in our heads
- Only with recognition
- Dying is rebirth
- Ego-grasping death comes before life
- Spacious awareness
- Identifying the sickness for ourselves
- Stretching a bit further
- Facing suffering
- Short moments, many times
- Awareness contains impermanence
- The source of what we like or do not like
- Reverse activity
- Accepting whatever happens
- Within each one of us