Loving-kindness and compassion shine through the shutters in those moments when we spontaneously give aid or comfort to someone, not out of self-interest or thinking we might get something in return, but just because it seems the right thing to do.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:
- Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
- Not alone
- A moment of direct pristine awareness
- Looking directly
- Courage to be as we are
- Bringing an end to suffering
- No greater inspiration
- The possibilities within us
- 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