There is no greater inspiration, no greater courage, than the intention to lead all beings to the perfect freedom and complete well-being of recognizing their true nature.
Whether you accomplish this intention isn’t important. The intention alone has such power that as you work with it, your mind will become stronger; your mental afflictions will diminish; you’ll be more skillful in helping other beings; and in so doing, you’ll create the causes and conditions for your own well-being.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:
- A moment of direct pristine awareness
- The possibilities within us
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
- Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
- Bringing an end to suffering
- The right thing to do
- Looking directly
- Not alone
- Courage to be as we are
- Importance of understanding our basic situation
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Ability to fly
- Clarity 24/7
- Essence of all our experiences
- Clarity
- Awareness and apprehended objects
- Samsara is an expression of nirvana
- Taking life on the path