Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better in the future, or we are sunk in the past, reminiscing about happier times. Ironically, we never truly appreciated the experience for which we are nostalgic because we were too busy clinging to our hopes and fears at the time.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book What Makes You Not a Buddhist
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Further quotes from the book What Makes You Not a Buddhist:
- Like a child at the cinema
- Four seals
- Enjoying the bliss of ignorance
- The impossible is possible
- The real source of fear is not knowing
- Happily ever after
- Like moths to the flame
- Shielding ourselves and others from the truth
- Fearlessness
- Driven by ambitions
- Understanding the nature of enlightenment
- Corrosion begins as soon as creation begins
- Nonviolence
- The primordial absence of defilements
- Products and parts
- Emptiness
- Where will they scatter my ashes
- The real enemy
- What is in the mind of a Buddhist
- Acts of Generosity