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:

• Great news
• Replace longing with love
• Within each one of us
• Boundless reality
• Stretching a bit further
• Fundamentally pure and good
• Dying is rebirth
• Anywhere, anytime
• Vast and intimate
• Stay with what is
• Nothing endures but change
• The masks that hide our true selves
• Short moments, many times
• Ego-grasping death comes before life
• Only with recognition
• Change yourself
• Accepting whatever happens
• Spacious awareness
• Identifying the sickness for ourselves
• Awareness contains impermanence