If we allow ourselves to relax and take a mental step back, we can begin to recognize that all these different thoughts are simply coming and going within the context of an unlimited mind, which, like space, remains fundamentally unperturbed by whatever occurs within it.
Mingyur Rinpoche
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Further quotes from the book The Joy of Living :
- Meditation on compassion
- What Buddhists mean by happiness
- Just observe it
- Setting the tone for your entire day
- Your mind just as it is
- Being diligent
- Importance of the motivation
- The best part of all
- Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
- Oh, this is how my mind works
- Neither rejecting nor accepting
- Trying to do your best
- Nothing more than the natural function of the mind
- The practice of simply observing
- Thinking of yourself as limited
- Essentially good
- An experience of absolute well-being
- The need to look at the mind
- Never disturbed
- Becoming aware