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
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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World :
- Vast and intimate
- It’s how we relate to emotions
- Change yourself
- Upholding the lineage
- Anywhere, anytime
- 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