The less we know about the chattering, muttering voice in our heads that tell us what to do, what to believe, what to buy, which people we should love, and so forth, the more power we grant it to boss us around and convince us that whatever it says is true.

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:

• 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
• 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